HEABC tables concession package for health science professionals
VANCOUVER—After eight months of bargaining for a new collective agreement, the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) last week finished tabling proposals amounting to significant concessions for the province’s health science professionals’ collective agreement. Chief Negotiator for the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA) Maureen Headley said the package tabled is an insult to HSA […]
CUPE BC passionate about justice for all
VANCOUVER—The labour movement has a responsibility to work with and support organizations that provide legal services for low-income and vulnerable people, CUPE BC General Vice President Paul Faoro told a packed room at a fundraising event late last week to support Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society. “In my view, the labour community should be working more […]
Human Rights – CUPE activists are ‘making it happen’
RICHMOND—Activists will celebrate key victories while strategizing for continuing challenges at CUPE BC’s human rights conference (November 18-20, 2010, Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel, Richmond). Themed “Human Rights – Making it Happen”, the conference will for the first time bring all four of CUPE BC’s equity-seeking groups—workers of colour, aboriginal workers, workers with disabilities and pink […]
CUPE 374 calls on council to consider the public option
SOOKE—CUPE 374 is calling on Sooke’s Mayor and Council to hold an open tendering process and to look at a public option for delivery of water and wastewater services in Sooke. The District of Sooke issued a news release late last week stating that they were moving forward with negotiations to enter into a 21-year […]
Fallen Tofino Paramedics laid to rest at ceremony attended by thousands
TOFINO—In a moving ceremony attended by paramedics, firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel from all over North America, the community of Tofino said goodbye Saturday to Jo-Ann Fuller and Ivan Polivka, the two paramedics who died in the line of duty on October 19. John Strohmaier, President of the Ambulance Paramedics of BC, CUPE […]
Employer cancels college bargaining at last minute
BURNABY-The College and Institute Support Staff Bargaining Association (CISSBA) announced today that provincial template-table bargaining has been cancelled by the Post Secondary Employers’ Association (PSEA). The PSEA confirmed on October 30 that it would not be attending bargaining sessions scheduled for November 2-5. PSEA employers are now discussing whether to proceed with the template-table bargaining […]
Campbell’s resignation doesn’t erase the BC Liberal record of deception—CUPE BC
BURNABY—Gordon Campbell may have resigned as premier and leader of the BC Liberal Party, but his departure does nothing to repair the damage his policies and actions have created throughout B.C., CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill said today. “I rarely agree with Mr. Campbell, but he was right about one thing in his resignation speech: […]
Community Health Sector launches campaign
VANCOUVER–CUPE members who work in community health launched a campaign today to raise public awareness and understanding of the services they provide in communities across British Columbia. “Lots of people don’t realize the many ways we help,” says Jill Stromnes, an administrative support supervisor with Fraser Health. “But children, adults and seniors in B.C.’s communities […]
After one year, no deal in sight
Last Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the commencement of negotiations for new collective agreements in the community social services sector. Bargaining resumed this week after the employers took a five week break. Your union bargaining committee was optimistic at the start of the week as a number of very minor issues were agreed […]
CUPE 608 parks workers honoured for heroic lake rescue
PENTICTON—Four municipal workers were honoured on Thursday with a special ceremony by city council in recognition of their heroic effort two weeks ago in saving a man from drowning. On October 13, Parks maintenance worker Tony Molachyk was approached by a citizen along Lakeshore Drive at Penticton’s Okanagan Beach and told that a man swimming […]
