July 29, 2010 Final wage rates for the facilities subsector Rehabilitation Assistant, Program Coordinator I (formerly Activity Worker III) and Program Coordinator II (formerly Activity Worker IV) benchmarks have been determined by classification arbitrator John Kinzie. Language and wage rate changes were negotiated during the “Page 209” benchmark series review in 2008 and 2009 for [...]

International Union of Operating Engineers is supporting CUPE in the disparance of Lyle and Marie McCann. We are urging our members to support the seach for Lyle and Marie McCann, family members of a Cupe 30 member who have been missing since July 3. The elderly couple disappeared on the road between St. Albert, Albert [...]

1600 UNITE HERE Local 40 members at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Renaissance Hotel, Westin Bayshore and Four Seasons are currently working without a union contract. There is little to no progress in bargaining. The hotels are refusing to even discuss key issues for Local 40 members like housekeeping workload and the devasting fake “green” program [...]

It has come to the attention of the union that some employers have not yet implemented new clerical members that resulted from the clerical benchmark review contained in the 2006-2010 agreement (“page208″). Under the final settlement and implementation agreement reached in January, health employers to implement the new rates of pay for benchmarks covered by [...]

Following the footsteps of our ancestors, while building a future for our children Share the Celebration of First Nations Culture

June 18, 2010 IUOE is welcoming a decision from the province’s Labour Relations Board dismissing all raid applications submitted by the BC Nurses’ Union to represent LPNs who are members of IUOE, HEU and other unions of Facilities Bargaining Association. “Today’s ruling confirms what the vast majority of LPNs have told us all along – [...]

Please Come and join the Walk4Justice Kamloops, BC to Winnipeg, Manitoba June 22, 2010 to July 28, 2010   This walk is to continue to voice our concern about on-going violence against our women and children in Canada. We want to honour our lost, but not forgotten, women who have died through violence and/or are [...]