{"id":114841,"date":"2025-09-02T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114841\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:32:09","slug":"bcgeu-strike-action-day-one-picket-lines-go-up-at-three-official-1-surprise-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114841\/","title":{"rendered":"BCGEU strike action day one: Picket lines go up at three official, 1 surprise, locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Picket lines have gone up at three locations in B.C. as the BC General Employees Union (BCGEU) gets ready to launch a strike.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The pickets are set up outside the Jack Davis building in Victoria, a Service BC building in Surrey and a Child and Family Services Centre in Prince George.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a surprise picket line has been erected outside the Royal BC Museum in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The union is not sharing any other specific details about what the job action will look like.<\/p>\n<p>Wages remain a key factor in the labour dispute. The union\u2019s president says no new negotiations took place over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here ready to bargain with my whole bargaining team,\u201d BCGEU president Paul Finch said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole committee is here. They\u2019re committed. The government doesn\u2019t have a revised offer. Their last offer, which they haven\u2019t moved off of, is unacceptable to our membership and frankly it\u2019s unacceptable to British Columbians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'B.C. marks Labour Day with BCGEU strike looming'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bcgeu.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3:52<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB.C. marks Labour Day with BCGEU strike looming\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The last BCGEU strike was in 2022, where union members set up picket lines outside B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch warehouses, effectively disrupting deliveries of alcohol and cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>B.C.\u2019s Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside told Global News that the issues will be solved at the bargaining table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the best deals are found at the bargaining table,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s the process that will happen here and in every other dispute we\u2019re experiencing across the province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Picket lines have gone up at three locations in B.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64592,60630,49,48,46,44,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-114841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-bcgeu","9":"tag-bcgeu-strike","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}