Syndicats near Goodlow BC (15 Result(s))

We have stuck to our guns and will be voting on contract ratification on Thursday! (Polling details TBA)Despite all the talk in the media, we do not yet have any of the tentative language that we will be voting on. Michele will get that out to us as soon as possible!We understand that discussions regarding a 'return to work' plan are on-going - please DO NOT go in to your school before the details are determined!We will continue to maintain picket lines today and tomorrow.Posted by Peace River North Teachers' Association atMonday, 15 September 2014Hardship Fund - OPEN FOR APPLICATIONSThe Peace River North Teachers' Association will make available interest-free loans to those members whose financial situation has reached an EMERGENCY level as a result of a recent strike or general hardship.

The agreement is expected to be ratified within the next week.Peace River South Teachers' AssociationFrom the President's Desk . . . Why Teachers have been forced into Job Action Like all of you, teachers only want the best for their students.Despite bargaining for more than a year with the government there has been little progress made at the negotiating table.We have been waiting, very patiently, for the government to provide the necessary funding required for us to move forward in achieving a negotiated collective agreement. Instead, they have attempted to remove, yet again, the important provisions for class size and composition and minimum levels of specialist teachers that the BC Supreme Court restored. As a teachers have voted 89% in favour of job action.Local teachers concur with the comments made by BCTF President, Jim Iker, after our strike vote:'As teachers, we do not take job action, or even a vote on job action, lightly. We care deeply our schools, our students, and their families.

CUPW is a democratic union. CUPW members have a say every step of the way. They elect their own representatives. They help develop priorities for contract negotiations. Members also have a right to vote on the final package of demands that is developed during negotiations and any contract that is negotiated.

over 140 local USW 1-424 members from across the local Union took part in a number of courses organized by the local. The training is extremely valuable to our members dealing with the daily issues of policing the Collective agreement and addressing the concerns brought forward by the members within their operations be they grievances or health and safety issues. Those attending also had the opportunity to do some networking with members from other areas of the local including our new stewards and committees from the mining sector, Automotive and Trucking. Attendees were also given an update and a little history on the Northern Skills Training Pilot and encouraged to talk with their Brothers and sisters at work regarding the value of the program and the long term benefits.

The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) was founded in 1896 as a trade union representing primarily construction workers working as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers.These skilled artisans later became known as operating engineers or power engineers, maintaining heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes in the United States and Canada. The IUOE currently represents over 400,000 workers in approximately 170 local unions and operates nearly 100 apprenticeship programs.Local 115 of the IUOE was founded in 1931 to represent the growing number of operating engineers of B.C. who were crucial in the massive industrial expansion taking place across the province.For over 80 years, IUOE Local 115 has grown in numbers, strength and representation as the representing body of over 11,000 operating engineers across B.C. and the Yukon. Not only has Local 115 ensured and promoted the fair wages, well being and equitable treatment of members and the provincial workforce, they have implemented and secured major benefits packages for operating engineers who previously had none