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WEEKEND Friday September 7, 2012
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VOL. 23 NO. 35
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Maureen LeBourdais shows off a paper salmon lantern that was used to help decorate the dance held during the Horsefly Salmon Festival last weekend. Scales for the fish were painted by local children during one of the previous festivals, and since then LeBourdais has been using some LED lanterns to light it up for occasions. Monica Lamb-Yorski photo
BCGEU strike not likely the last Tom Fletcher Black Press Provincial government employees staged their largest one-day strike so far Wednesday to press for a bigger wage increase, with two thirds of the workforce off the job at ministry offices, liquor stores and ICBC offices province-wide. Both the government and the B.C. Government and Services Employees’ Union remained unwilling to budge from their positions after negotiations broke down over wage increases this spring. The union executive is meeting next week to consider further strike
action this fall. Two earlier one-day strikes targeted liquor warehouses and then selected resource ministry offices in the B.C. Interior. Government negotiators offered raises of two and 1.5 per cent for the next two years, then withdrew the offer after the union staged the first strike. BCGEU chief negotiator David Vipond said Wednesday the wage offer has been tabled and withdrawn three times since talks began early this year, a tactic he called “peek-a-boo bargaining.” See UNION, Page A2
BCGEU members picketing outside the government Liquor Store Wednesday were joined by union members from the United Steelworkers and the BC Teachers Federation. Monica Lamb-Yorski photo
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