The GVRD Employees’ Union has several programs and services available to its Members. First and foremost, we represent the Members in any dealings they may have with Metro Vancouver Management, as under law, the Union is the sole bargaining agent for all of its Members. Social events offered to the members include a summer BBQ, a winter ski trip, a custom made calendar featuring our Members, a scholarship award for students, and every year we invite Santa to a party for our Members’ children. We also actively educate our Shop Stewards by enrolling them in labour movement courses.

We negotiate our own Collective Agreements. The elected members of the Bargaining Committee have many years of experience at the bargaining table, in Labour Relations Board hearings, labour arbitrations and in mediation. We see clear advantages to in house bargaining, not the least of which is economic savings; additionally, as the bargaining committee all come from the Membership, they will have to live and work under the terms and conditions of the new collective agreement that they have negotiated and endorsed, alongside their fellow Members to whom they made the endorsement.