Union News
VSB Ratification Meetings – January 18 and 19, 2023
Greetings VSB Members: Please find below an important notice that was mailed out this week to your home address that we have on file. To ensure that you receive important updates, please make sure that the union office has your updated home mailing address as well as...
VSB Bargaining Update – Ratification Meetings January 2023
Greetings: Your VSB CUPE Local 15 bargaining committee reconvened bargaining with the employer on January 6th, and we are pleased to report that we have made significant gains since adjourning for the holiday break in December. Your committee is confident that we will...
City et al Bargaining Update
Greetings Members: Your CUPE Local 15 bargaining committee has partnered in a cost share program with CUPE Locals 1004 and 391 to produce a positive media campaign highlighting the various and important services that make our City work. For this campaign the committee...
City et al Bargaining Update
Thank you to our members for completing the bargaining survey, which closed on December 9th. We had a record breaking number of responses and appreciate the feedback that will help us to formulate your priorities for this round of bargaining. During the last few...
Sir James Douglas Elementary School – Temporary Relocation
Greetings: Please find attached below the letter sent out to families with children who attend Sir James Douglas Elementary School.
Vancouver Coastal Health Science Professionals Ratify New Collective Agreement
DON’T LET CORPORATE LOBBYISTS STAND IN THE WAY OF UNIVERSAL PHARMACARE
by Donya Ziaee, of the Council of Canadians, March 2021 After years of pledging to deliver pharmacare, the federal Liberals have yet again failed to follow through on that promise. On Wednesday, February 24, Liberal MPs joined Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois...
COUNCIL OF CANADIANS TELLS MPS TO STOP INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATIZATION (P3s)
Dylan Penner, March 2021 On February 23, 2021 the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities met to discuss the mandate of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. Included below are notes from Climate and Social...
City et al Bargaining Committee Update
An article from the City et al Bargaining Committee (City of Vancouver, Parks, Britannia, and Ray-Cam) is printed in the March issue of the Members’ Voice that you will be receiving next week. The following is a further update to that article that includes new...
Help Black Shirt Day be an annual Event! Sign the petition.
From the Anti-Racism Coalition of Vancouver (ARC), Chair: "We only have 16,600 signatures and would like to top 25,000 before our meeting with the Honourable Jennifer Whiteside Minister of Education on March 18th." In British Columbia, thousands of students wear pink...
March 11 Session on Labour and LGBTIQ Movements Working Together for Human Rights (Dignity Network)
Solidarity Matters: Global Labour & LGBTIQ Movements Working Together for Human Rights Throughout the world, labour unions have been a powerful force for the advancement of human rights for LGBTIQ people. A panel of stellar speakers will reflect upon the important...
Call for Expression of Interest EDMP Representative
Please find an expression of interest for an EDMP backfill position attached above. Please circulate this to the Vancouver Coastal Health members in your work place. Any questions can be sent to me directly.Thank you in advance for sharing this and if applicable, your...
Save the Date! Car Caravan to Support BC’s Unequal Women on Mar. 8 IWD 🚗
Hotels are refusing to recall their long-term workers when the hospitality industry recovers. Instead, mass firings are being used to strip away gains made by women who are the backbone of this industry and set them back to an earlier era. Hyatt is on the verge of...
City et al Bargaining Committee Update
Your City et al Bargaining Committee (City of Vancouver, Parks, Britannia, and Ray-Cam) has not met with the employer since November 2020. In November, after an overwhelming response to our survey, the committee presented an alternative approach that would speed up...
Rent Strike Bargain Campaign
At the February 2021 CUPE Local 15 Executive Board meeting the Executive voted unanimously to circulate information of the Rent Strike Bargain Campaign on behalf of the Vancouver and District Labour Council as follows:At their January 2021 meeting, The Vancouver and...