Bargaining issues workshops tackle barriers, explore solutions
RICHMOND—For Day One of CUPE’s regional bargaining strategies conference, delegates attended four of a possible nine workshops on various issues CUPE locals are facing at the bargaining table this year: Understanding Demographics: With younger people entering the work force in recent years, as well as more immigrants and aboriginal people, CUPE demographics are changing. With […]
BC Jobs Plan failing northern communities
Community college layoffs reflect lack of commitment to northern economy BURNABY—With an unemployment rate in northern B.C. sitting at 11.5 per cent and layoffs looming at northern colleges, the B.C. government’s vaunted BC Jobs Plan is failing northern communities, unions representing post secondary workers said today. The B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU), the […]
High public esteem helps us at the table: Barry O’Neill
RICHMOND—CUPE has come a long way in its embrace of strategic, coordinated bargaining across sectors and unions, CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill told delegates, in his welcoming remarks on Tuesday night. Thanks to the BC Liberal government’s legislative assault on labour rights in the last decade, which seriously undermined public sector collective bargaining in this […]
United front more important than ever: Paul Moist
RICHMOND—Thanks to the growing income gap between the richest and poorest citizens, and relentless labour-bashing by the federal Conservative and BC Liberal governments, CUPE members have more cause than ever to unite across sectors and work with other unions to restore free collective bargaining, CUPE National president Paul Moist told delegates in his keynote address […]
