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 […]
Rally for Health Care – November 7
70,000 BC health care workers are still without new collective agreements. It’s time for a fair and reasonable deal. Speakers:• Jim Sinclair & Irene Lanzinger, BC Federation of Labour• Darryl Walker, President, BCGEU• Bonnie Pearson, Secretary-Business Manager, HEU• Reid Johnson, President, HAS Where:• Vancouver Art Gallery, North Side When:• Wednesday November 7, 12:15 pm #rally4healthcare […]
SFU refuses to engage at contract talks
RICHMOND—CUPE came to the table with a mediator and determination to reach a collective agreement – they left empty handed. A full weekend of mediated bargaining with Vince Ready never got past the university’s fixation with its own pension problems, according to CUPE Local 3338 president Lynne Fowler. “This is extremely disappointing,” says Fowler, who […]
Final CUPE local at UVic signs collective agreement
VICTORIA — CUPE Local 4163 has reached a tentative collective agreement with the University of Victoria. The deal is a no-concessions, four-year agreement with 0-0-2-2% wage increases. The agreement is retroactive to 2010 and includes no wage increases for the first two years under the provincial government’s Net Zero Mandate. That mandate stipulated that public […]
Clerical workers ‘Spread too Thin’
BURNABY—A new CUPE clerical workers’ survey shows what clerical workers across BC already know – that they are highly skilled, overworked and underpaid. The report, undertaken by CUPE National Researcher John Malcolmson, gathered information on clerical work, workload pressure and impacts from 449 workers in six different BC bargaining units. The resulting report attached here […]
Striking community social services workers picket Liberal MLA Horne’s office
PORT MOODY—CUPE members were among the large, multi-union group of community social services workers who took their job action to BC Liberal MLA Douglas Horne’s office yesterday. The four-hour protest, which drew honks of support from passing motorists, called on the BC Liberal government to stop putting vulnerable families last and to start funding the […]
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All-out strike set at SFU
BURNABY – Striking CUPE Local 3338 support workers have scheduled an all-out, all-campus withdrawal of services for Wednesday, Nov. 7. The union says picket lines will go up at the Burnaby Mountain, Surrey and downtown Vancouver campuses. The 1,000-member union has been escalating job action in an effort to get the university administration back to […]
SFU strikers get support for escalating job action
BURNABY–Striking support workers were joined on the picket line by CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill today. O’Neill pledged the continued support of the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ 80,000 members in BC as the strikers announced plans to remain on the picket line tomorrow. O’Neill also met with student supporters and striking picketers from the […]
