{"id":117581,"date":"2025-09-03T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117581\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:28:15","slug":"bcgeu-strike-day-2-union-says-job-action-will-escalate-if-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117581\/","title":{"rendered":"BCGEU strike Day 2: Union says job action will escalate if necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Members of the BC General Employees Union are back on the picket lines on Wednesday for the second day of the strike.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, around 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bcgeu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BCGEU<\/a> members picketed outside government buildings in Victoria, Surrey and Prince George, along with the Royal BC Museum and an ICBC office in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>BCGEU president Paul Finch says job action will escalate if the BC Public Service Agency does not come back with a higher wage offer.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is not sharing details of what that escalation may look like.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Strike action begins for 34,000 B.C. public service workers'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BCGEU.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5:51<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\tStrike action begins for 34,000 B.C. public service workers\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re seeing predominantly inward-facing government services that are impacted,\u201d Finch said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s going to change. That will escalate over the coming days and weeks and so what we need is the government to come to the table to meet the very reasonable demands of what everyone here has put forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11369356\/canada-counter-tariffs-ended\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756931293_62_Trump-Carney-counter-tariffs.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMost of Canada\u2019s counter-tariffs on the U.S. have now ended\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11389077\/cra-issues-finance-minister\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/252b77f810649619a3aca24334f07b2a686eeb9c775b4e05472555dc3986b58e_e212f1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCRA needs 100-day plan to fix \u2018unacceptable\u2019 services, minister orders\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/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>B.C.\u2019s Finance Minister Brenda Bailey said they need to ensure a fair deal is reached \u201cin the context of the global challenges we\u2019re facing right now, particularly the trade war,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this is a fair mandate we\u2019re operating within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union is asking for a raise of 8.25 per cent over two years, while the province is offering 3.5 per cent over two years.<\/p>\n<p>The BCGEU has more than 95,000 members in 550 bargaining units in the public and private sectors. The union represents about 34,000 government workers.<\/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 Members of the BC General Employees Union are back on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64592,60630,49,48,44,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-117581","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-news","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117581","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=117581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}