Province launches new assault on post secondary workers
BURNABY—In their latest attack on post secondary education, the BC Liberals are fastracking a new plan to slash jobs and money from BC’s already hemorrhaging college and university budgets. Details about the ambiguously titled Administrative Service Delivery Transformation Project have been surfacing for the past week. While the province has dragged its feet on negotiations […]
CUPE members celebrate Pride
VANCOUVER—Queer pride celebrations around the province continued on Sunday (August 5) with CUPE members braving the heat to march in the Lower Mainland’s massive Pride parade. On yet another August long weekend with peak high temperatures, CUPE BC activists joined the multi-union pride contingent while CUPE 116 from UBC had its own float. All […]
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 […]
