BC Government and Service Employees' Union

13.07.2005 A controversial 2003 decision by the B.C. Labour Relations Board, one of the most pro-employer boards in Canada, has been overturned by a reconsideration panel. For a full week during BCGEU's organizing drive at a call centre owned in the U.S., the company projected continuous high tech slide shows with strong anti-union messages onto screens set up in the workplace. Company managers also distributed "gifts" to employees bearing anti-union messages.

13.05.2005 Working parents need affordable child care to balance work and family needs. And studies show, children who get good care in their early years do better at school, are well-adjusted teenagers, and become more stable adults. Yet quality, affordable child care is out of reach for many B.C. families. The federal government has signed bilateral agreements with some other provinces but in B.C., the Gordon Campbell Liberal government is refusing federal funding because it does not want to be held accountable on how it spends the money.

28.04.2005 The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear arguments on whether the British Columbia provincial government's contract-breaking law violates the equality and freedom of association rights of health care workers in B.C. On trial is the 2002 legislation that shredded legally negotiated collective agreements paving the way for an unprecedented privatization of health care services and the mass firing of more than 8,000 health care workers – mostly women.