Wednesday Rally for Striking CUPE workers
VANCOUVER– CUPE National President Paul Moist and CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill plan to join striking support workers from SFU and Vancouver Community College for a rally in downtown Vancouver tomorrow. Moist and O’Neill will join a rally at VCC with some of the 1,000 members of CUPE Local 3338 who are shutting down Simon […]
Job action in community health
VANCOUVER–The Community Bargaining Association (CBA) reviewed the employer’s latest offer and although a wage increase is included in the offer, it is tied securely to a corresponding “offset” (cost savings) from the collective agreement. The offset is matched by the employer to provide the wage increase. There is no guarantee built into the proposal that […]
Wave of ‘P3 promotion’ misses the point
Did we miss the proclamation of “P3 Week” in British Columbia? Earlier this week, the Sun ran three op-ed pieces in two days, all lauding the supposed virtues of “public private partnerships (P3s).” The three op-eds had a couple of things in common. First, they were written by people with a bias in favour of […]
