CUPE BC General Vice President Karen Ranalletta addresses the Labour Day crowd.
VANCOUVER – CUPE members and their families celebrated Labour Day at the PNE on September 3, joining a rally attended by Premier John Horgan and Minister of Labour Harry Bains. CUPE BC General Vice-President Karen Ranalletta brought greetings on behalf of President Paul Faoro, the executive board, and CUPE’s 92,000 members across B.C.
VICTORIA– Members of CUPE Local 1978, representing municipal workers at the Capital Regional District, ratified a new collective agreement today.
As we near another Labour Day, leaders of major unions in B.C. are often asked for their thoughts. It seems to me that the collective voices of hundreds of thousands of working people might warrant at least a little ongoing media attention during the rest of the year, especially when compared to the hundreds of column inches dedicated to the views of anti-union business lobbyists like the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses or the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association.
BURNABY—Members of the multi-union Community Bargaining Association (CBA) have voted solidly in favour of a new contract with health employers. The new three-year collective agreement, which covers 16,000 union members working in the community health sector, will take effect April 1, 2019 and expire on March 31, 2022.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/community_health_workers_ratify_new_deal
Calling all Pacific Blue Cross plan members
BURNABY – Pacific Blue Cross plan members are asked to attend the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, July 24 in the Crystal Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel Metrotown and help elect a progressive, accountable board that acts in the interest of plan members and respects its own workers.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/agm_on_july_24_opportunity_to_finish_what_we_started
HARRISON HOT SPRINGS – CUPE 458 and the Village of Harrison Hot Springs reached a new tentative agreement earlier today after almost a week of strike action in the Village.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/tentative_agreement_reached_in_harrison_hot_springs
BURNABY — A tentative agreement was reached between the K-12 Provincial Bargaining Council (PBC) and the BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) late Wednesday evening on a provincial framework agreement for K-12 support staff.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/k_12_pbc_and_bcpsea_reach_tentative_agreement
When Princeton teacher, Shirley Low, developed a project for her Grade 3 social studies class on mapping ten years ago, no one had any idea what it would grow into. The class embraced the project to create a plan for a community garden and then wanted to actually build it.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/cupe_school_and_community_growing_together
HARRISON HOT SPRINGS – CUPE Local 458 and the Village of Harrison Springs resumed negotiations today (July 11), however after a brief bargaining session no agreement was reached.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/village_workers_still_without_a_contract
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