More photos & video - June 19th Bargaining Solidarity Day
Published by Patrick June 23rd, 2008 in Around the Province, Bargaining Tags: Bargaining, Fraser Valley, North Vancouver Island, okanagan, South Vancouver Island, Treasury Board.
On June 19th PSAC members throughout BC, and from coast to coast to coast, joined together at lunchtime and after work gatherings to tell the employer that we deserve to be treated with respect and to express our frustration at the lack of progress after one year of bargaining. Members in BC sent postcards to their MP’s, distributed leaflets, and wore their “I support my team” bracelets and tattoos, among many other things.
In Kamloops and Salmon Arm, members asked Treasury Board to “Show Us The Green”; in the Fraser Valley, members working for Corrections Canada handed out peanuts and ate vegetarian pizza (where’s the meat in TB’s offer?); in Vancouver members gathered downtown and at Nat Bailey Stadium to hear reports from Bargaining Team members, and REVP Kay Sinclair; and at the airport Customs Officers practiced due dilligence in their work; on the Island members gathered in Victoria, Esquimalt, Nanaimo, Campbell River, and Courtenay.
Continue reading for some more photos & video …
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- Murray Mcpherson, Mike Ballard - Solidarity BBQ - Campbell River
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- Sam Harrison, Tom Hopkins, Marcie Nihaus - Campbell River
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- Coast Guard, Fisheries, and Service Canada Members - Solidarity BBQ - Campbell River
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- Robert Strang & Megan Adam - Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Vancouver Area Council President Sam Wiese - Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Kay Sinclair @ Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Baseball Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Baseball Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Baseball Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Baseball Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Baseball Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Baseball Bargaining BBQ - Vancouver
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- Pizza lunch - Matsqui
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- Pizza lunch - Matsqui
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- Pizza lunch - Matsqui
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- Pizza lunch - Matsqui
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- Pizza lunch - Matsqui
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- Pizza lunch - Matsqui
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- Plain Cheese & Vegetarian pizza as there was no meat in the employers offer - Matsqui
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- Handing out peanuts - Matsqui
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- CEIU 20972 - Service Canada - Kelowna
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- CEIU 20972 - Service Canada - Kelowna
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- "Show us the green!" - Service Canada - Kamloops
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- Contract Or Walk! - CEIU 20975 - Victoria
Here is a video of the lunchtime BBQ at Canada Place, where 250 people braved the rain to hear REVP Kay Sinclair and member negotiators Karim Lawji and Megan Adam speak.
Click for some other photos, posted on Friday.
Click for photos and video from Ottawa, where 3000 PSAC members held a “March for Respect”.