Your bargaining committee met with your Employer between June 1-4 last week to renegotiate your collective agreement. We had productive discussions with your Employer on many issues, including beginning discussions on monetary items.

This is an unusual round of bargaining because the public health orders still in place mean that we have been bargaining over Zoom. In this setting, bargaining does take longer than in person, so we were not able to reach an agreement in the four days we had booked.

We are happy with the direction of negotiations. We are meeting your Employer again on July 21 and are hopeful we will be able to reach a tentative agreement then.

This bulletin was sent via email to personal email addresses that you have given BCGEU. If you did not receive this bulletin to your personal email, you can log into the Member's Portal at members.bcgeu.ca to update your email address and stay up to date on bargaining news.

In solidarity,

Monty Qureshi, Bargaining Committee Chair
Saren Voisey, Bargaining Committee Member
Ken Mui Chung Yu, Bargaining Committee Member
Sheila Matthen, Staff Representative, Negotiations

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