Information for BCNU members
New Open letter to BCNU Convention delegates March 2010. Read it here.
In January 2010, the BC Nurses’ Union admitted that it had failed to sign up enough LPNs to support its raid of HEU and other unions.
BCNU’s subsequent attempt to withdraw its raid application was denied by the B.C. Labour Relations Board.
The LRB also released the report of the Industrial Relations Officer charged with investigating BCNU’s applications.
This report showed that BCNU had not only failed to sign up enough LPNs province-wide to support its raid, but that they had also failed to gain the support of a majority of LPNs in any of the six health authorities.
Note: On March 3, the Labour Relations Board released a further supplementary report from the Industrial Relations Officer (also dated March 3) confirming that BCNU has failed to demonstrate adequate support for its raid among LPNs in any of its seven separate raid applications. The LRB vice-chair writes that "even in the best case scenario, the BCNU does not have the requisite majority membership support for a representation vote."
Archived items
- September 14 letter from BCGEU president Darryl Walker to BCNU president Debra McPherson rejecting BCNU’s offer to compensate BCGEU for raiding LPNs. Walker: “Our members are not chattels to be brokered or paid for in a hostile takeover bid.”
- Please take a minute to read this June 2009 open letter to BCNU members from health care unions whose members are targets of the BCNU’s actions.
- CLC president Ken Georgetti’s July 30 letter to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) outlining the finding of raiding by the BCNU and the sanctions that BCNU faces as a result. The CLC had also written CFNU on BCNU’s actions in May.
- CFNU president Linda Silas’ August 5 letter directing BCNU to stop its raiding activities against B.C. health unions.
- B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair and secretary-treasurer Angela Schira’s August 7 letter suspending BCNU from B.C. Fed activities.
- You may also be interested in reading this letter from CUPE president Paul Moist to delegates to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions’ convention held in Vancouver from June 8-12, and visit www.respectsolidarity.ca - a website health unions set up to provide information to CFNU delegates.
