Unions for B.C. public sector workers are expecting challenging negotiations as the province struggles with economic uncertainty and big budget deficits.
And one major union is already warning that the province’s wage offers don’t “come close” to meeting members’ needs.
Unions for about 452,000 B.C. public sector workers, including the Hospital Employees’ Union, BC Teachers’ Federation and BC Nurses’ Union, are at the table this year as their contracts expire.
The BC General Employees’ Union, or BCGEU, representing about 34,000 provincial workers, has been in talks for more than six months.
On June 20, the province made an initial wage offer, the union said.
It proposed a two-year agreement,
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