Union News
Municipal Pension Plan Annual General Meeting
Dear CUPE Local 15 Municipal Pension Plan Members: Save the date for the online Municipal Pension Plan annual general meeting.Join the meeting to get the facts about your plan. You’ll hear about climate action goals, 2022 financial highlights, investment performance,...
Municipal Pension Plan Annual General Meeting
Dear Langara College Municipal Pension Plan Members: Save the date for the online Municipal Pension Plan annual general meeting.Join the meeting to get the facts about your plan. You’ll hear about climate action goals, 2022 financial highlights, investment...
City et al Bargaining Committee Update – July 18, 2023
Greetings City et al Members: Your Bargaining Committee continues to meet with the Employer to discuss proposals. There have been constructive discussions so far and we are currently waiting for more dates from the Employer to meet. We will update the membership as...
Langara College Tentative Agreement Reached
Dear Langara College Members: Thank you to the members who attended our ratification presentations and vote on July 11-13, 2023. The members voted in favour of accepting the tentative agreement as recommended by the Bargaining Committee. If you have any questions,...
Museum of Vancouver Tentative Agreement Reached
Dear Museum of Vancouver Members: Thank you to the members who attended our ratification presentation and vote today. The members voted in favour of accepting the tentative agreement as recommended by the Bargaining Committee. If you have any questions, please direct...
Vancouver Maritime Museum Society Tentative Agreement Reached
Dear Vancouver Maritime Museum Society Members: Thank you to the members who attended our ratification presentation and vote yesterday. The members voted in favour of accepting the tentative agreement as recommended by the Bargaining Committee. If you have any...
Take Action on Injured Workers Day – BCFED
June 1st is Injured Workers Day, a day that injured workers, their families, friends, unions & other progressive groups gather across Canada to call for urgently-needed changes to workers’ compensation programs. This year, we are doing just that. We are ramping...
City et al – Five Paid Sick Days per Calendar Year for Auxiliary & Temporary Full-Time Employees
Dear City, Parks, Britannia and Ray-Cam members: Our collective agreements with City, Parks, Britannia, and Ray-Cam provide paid sick leave for only a portion of the employees of these four employers. For those employees previously not eligible for paid sick days...
Vancouver School Board – Ratification of Bargaining Proposals
Thanks to the members who came out to our Ratification of Bargaining Proposals meetings.The members voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying the bargaining proposals as presented.Our first day at the bargaining table with the employer is June 10, 2022. Watch for...
2022 Executive Election Results
After the nomination process closed, Warren Williams was acclaimed as President, Ravina Lal was acclaimed as 2nd Vice President, Bernie Dionne was acclaimed as Parks Sector Representative, Roxshanna Shankar was acclaimed as the HSSCBA (Community Health) Sector...
VSB/CUPE Local 15 Information Bulletin: Quarantine Pay Update
Greetings K-12 Members: We are disappointed in having to report that the employer has denied the grievance we filed regarding members having to use their sick days to cover quarantine time due to contracting COVID-19, as opposed to paying you separately under the...
VSB/CUPE Local 15 Information Bulletin: 2022 Bargaining Update
Greetings K-12 Members: Your CUPE Local 15 Bargaining Committee met on May 18 and 19 to continue work on preparing proposals that will be presented to the membership for ratification on May 24 and 26, 2022. We strongly encourage all members to attend the proposal...
Election Voting Link – City, College/University and K-12 Members Only
Please see link below. https://cupe15.simplyvoting.com/
Meeting Notice – Vancouver School Board Bargaining Proposals
Statement from CUPE BC Regarding National Logo
BURNABY--It has come to our attention that CUPE National's logo is being used to promote a "protest" event without our authorization. Without drawing additional attention to this event, we wish to make it clear that our union has not endorsed nor is associated with...
Hate is our Enemy
My heart dropped when I turned on the news this weekend and saw what happened in Buffalo. Ten people lost their lives because of racist hatred fueled by online conspiracies. The same lies we have seen festering in Canada for years and have only grown since the start...