Pressure is mounting on the province to find a resolution to a strike by unionized government workers, as other unions come out to show support.
In the four days since the BC General Employees Union (BCGEU) began job action, leaders with the nurses’, teachers’ and hospital employees unions have all joined the picket lines.
“It’s not just public sector unions, it’s the labour movement in general,” BCGEU president Stephanie Smith told Global News, Thursday.
“People recognize that BCGEU members, the 33,000 in the public service, aren’t just fighting for their own wage protections, they’re fighting for wage protections for all workers.”
Numerous B.C. public sector unions are currently without a deal, and are pressing the government for a cost of living adjustment in the ballpark of five per cent, amid historic inflation rates.
