{"id":691940,"date":"2026-05-25T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691940\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T04:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:30:15","slug":"union-for-hundreds-of-metro-vancouver-workers-announce-ban-on-overtime-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691940\/","title":{"rendered":"Union for hundreds of Metro Vancouver workers announce ban on overtime work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779683415_762_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Workers gather on the Westham Island Bridge, which is closed to vehicle traffic after the span was hit by a tugboat, in Delta, B.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 24, 2026 | 7:32 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 A union representing hundreds of Metro Vancouver employees has announced an indefinite overtime ban as part of a dispute with the regional district.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Medeiros, with the Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees\u2019 Union, says in a statement the overtime ban will have the most impact on water and sewer operations and maintenance and construction teams. <\/p>\n<p>The statement says union members will also refuse standby work and not accept assignments outside of their defined job descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>In March, union members voted almost 98 per cent in favour of authorizing job action, and last week issued a 72-hour strike notice with the BC Labour Relations Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers gather on the Westham Island Bridge, which is closed to vehicle traffic after the span was hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-691940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691940","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=691940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}