VANCOUVER—CUPE members from throughout the Lower Mainland and beyond will be participating in the Walk for Reconciliation (Sunday, September 24), a positive movement to build better relationships among Indigenous peoples and all Canadians.
BURNABY—Last night, longtime CUPE activist and staff representative Jeff Lawson passed away.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/cupe_mourns_passing_of_longtime_activist_and_staff_representative_jeff_lawson
New six-year contract includes annual wage increases while preserving retiree benefits.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/cupe_1816_ratifies_agreement_with_pacific_blue_cross
BURNABY — CUPE 1816 and Pacific Blue Cross have reached a tentative agreement at the bargaining table, effectively ending a labour dispute that began with rotating job actions in May, negotiating committees for both parties have confirmed.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/cupe_1816_pacific_blue_cross_reach_tentative_agreement
VICTORIA - Today’s Throne Speech offered welcome news to members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in BC.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/throne_speech_echoes_people_s_agenda_cupe_bc
Order took effect at noon for firms that failed to extricate themselves as PBC ‘preferred brokers’
BURNABY—Members of CUPE Local 1816 began picketing at noon today outside some of the 15 businesses identified as “Preferred Travel Insurance Brokers” for Pacific Blue Cross during the benefit provider’s lockout of its more than 600 employees.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/lrb_order_allows_cupe_to_picket_pacific_blue_cross_allies
Benefit provider’s deferment of September AGM violates Societies Act, petitioners claim
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/pacific_blue_cross_challenged_in_bc_supreme_court
VANCOUVER – The Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1004, which represents approximately 3,300 PNE full time, part time and Fair-time employees, are pleased to announce the successful completion of bargaining.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/pne_and_cupe_1004_reach_tentative_contract
LRB filing targets 29 insurance firms identified as ‘preferred brokers’ during labour dispute
BURNABY—The Canadian Union of Public Employees today filed an application with the Labour Relations Board of British Columbia to allow picketing of 29 insurance brokers by declaring them to be “allies” of Pacific Blue Cross (PBC) during its labour dispute with CUPE Local 1816.
http://www.cupe.bc.ca/cupe_files_application_to_picket_pacific_blue_cross_allies
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