Support making National Indigenous Peoples Day a statutory holday

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As a follow-up to a resolution passed at the CUPE BC 2018 Convention  this past April, we are supporting a petition to have June 21st – National Indigenous People’s Day – recognized as a statutory holiday by the Province of British Columbia.

Please help us by downloading and printing the petition, and get people to sign it!

You can read more about this on CUPE’s website here.

Completed forms can be scanned and emailed to Deea Bailey, or drop it off / mail  it to  the Local’s office in Royal Square Mall at:

CUPE 1936
#208 – 800 McBride Blvd.,
New Westminster BC V3L 2B8

Provincial Bargaining Update #6 – A Tentative Agreement Has Been Reached!

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The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) is pleased to announce that, after four weeks of negotiations and a 95-hour push over the last six days for a deal without concessions, a tentative agreement has been reached for General Services and Community Living with the Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA). The tentative agreements are for three-year terms and provide significant compensation increases in terms of low-wage redress for all members, while meeting the government mandate of improving the services British Columbians count on.

You can get the June 15th bargaining update by clicking here.

CUPE Press Release

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Tentative agreements reached for General Services and Community Living

BURNABY—The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) is pleased to announce that, after four weeks of negotiations and a 95-hour push over the last six days for a deal without concessions, a tentative agreement has been reached for General Services and Community Living with the Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA).

To read more, please visit:

https://www.cupe.bc.ca/tentative_agreements_reached_for_general_services_and_community_living

 

Community Social Services Bargaining Association and Employers to begin negotiating new contract for members in Community Social Services (CSS)

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BURNABY—The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) has agreed to begin negotiations with the Community Social Services Employers’ Association of BC (CSSEA) aimed at concluding renewal collective agreements with members in Community Social Services.

Along with CUPE and the lead union, BCGEU, the bargaining association members are HEU, HSA, USW, UFCW, CSWU, CLAC, BCNU, and SEIU. The Community Social Services sector consists of collective agreements for Community Living Services, General Services, and Aboriginal Services.

The existing contracts between the CSSEA and CSSBA expire on March 31, 2019. They cover approximately 3,000 CUPE members among a total of more than 15,000 unionized workers within the provincial bargaining sector.

“We’re pleased to be entering into early contract negotiations,” says CUPE bargaining committee member Sheryl Burns. “The Community Social Services sector has been in crisis for over a decade. We look forward to improving the working conditions and lives of our members and caring professionals who provide support to some of the most vulnerable British Columbians.”

CUPE has been preparing for a return to the bargaining table since late last year, identifying priorities through member surveys and bargaining meetings.

Bargaining will commence on May 15, 2018.

We will post more information as it becomes available. Please make sure your contact information is up to date by e-mailing CUPE Community Social Services Coordinator Louise Oetting at loetting@cupe.ca.