Health science professionals issue strike notice after employers pull a no-show at scheduled bargaining

VANCOUVER– Bargaining for a new contract for BC’s health science professionals was to resume yesterday for the first time since health science professionals delivered a 90 percent strike vote to support the bargaining committee’s proposals for a fair and reasonable collective agreement. Bargaining had broken off October 31. The employers’ bargaining agent, Health Employers’ Association […]

Talks resumed this week; rotating strikes continue

Vancouver- The Community Bargaining Association (CBA) met in Vancouver this week, but no progress was made. The CBA and the Health Employers’ Association of BC (HEABC) are seeking additional dates. CUPE members were picketed out today by Community Health workers in Vancouver Coastal Health Authority in Richmond and North Vancouver. The ongoing limited job action […]

CUPE BC endorses Michelle Laurie and Trevor Davies for BC Fed leadership

‘The best way forward for the union movement in BC’—O’Neill BURNABY— CUPE BC, BC’s largest union, with more than 85,000 members, has endorsed Michelle Laurie and Trevor Davies for President and Secretary Treasurer of the BC Federation of Labour, president Barry O’Neill said today. The BC Fed holds its biannual constitutional convention next week in […]