Rally to challenge government on cost savings “mandate”
VANCOUVER—With more than 300,000 government and public sector employees—including tens of thousands of CUPE members—bargaining new collective agreements in 2012, the provincial government continues to push its so-called “cooperative gains” mandate. Public sector unions negotiating under this mandate have proposed hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue gains and savings, but the government isn’t […]
Princeton library workers vote to join CUPE
PRINCETON— Princeton library workers voted unanimously July 25th to become members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).The five library workers at the Princeton branch of the Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) will be the newest members of CUPE 1123. CUPE 1123 already represents library workers at 16 of the 29 branches of the ORL […]
