by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Bargaining 2010
Things have really started to heat up at the bargaining table... we started Tuesday morning with the hotel fire alarms going off and evacuating the building until the Richmond fire department could give us the all clear. We retreated to a different hotel and while...
by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Bargaining 2010
This seemed like a longer negotiating session than usual! We spent our week in Victoria this time with continued progress on issues surrounding workplace flexibility and simplication/transparancy of the hiring process. We're also starting discussions that we are all...
by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Bargaining 2010
Last week the negotiating team was in Victoria again bargaining from Tuesday through Thursday. This time we had the pleasure of having Harp Sandhu join us in lieu of Dave Robertson who was needed at home. We all have made sacrifices to continue this work so it's...
by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Bargaining 2010
Bargaining and The Grand Tour I write this just as we’ve finished another three days of bargaining. As time marches on the smaller items of contention are falling by the wayside, either with agreement or withdrawn from the table. This leaves us with fewer items in...
by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Bargaining
BCGEU has been offered 3% over two years which doesn't approach the cost of living let alone making up for past zeros, so their talks have broken off. They'll be spending some time, given the logistics of so many members, running the process of a strike vote. In our...
by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Bargaining 2010
Normally I would wait until the end of a week of bargaining to post an update, but I know you are all waiting patiently for word of the employer's wage offer and....drumroll please........ On average they are offering 1.5% per year for a two year contract with lower...
