Nearly 500 family service workers on strike
Nearly 500 family service workers across British Columbia are striking on Wednesday, February 6 and Thursday, February 7.
Family service workers work with vulnerable families. They intervene when children or youth are at risk. They help with substance addictions. They work with teenage or single parents trying to make ends meet. They provide family counselling, vocational and life skills training, job placement services, assessment, therapy, infant and supported child development, and autism intervention.
This family services strike follows last weeks strike by 3400 community living workers across British Columbia.
The following agencies will be on strike, but essential services will be maintained:
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
|
Community |
Agency |
Picket location & time |
Union |
Members impacted |
|
Vancouver |
WestCoast Family Centres |
8am-5pm |
BCGEU |
55 |
|
Vancouver |
WestCoast Child Care Resource Centre |
8am-5pm |
BCGEU |
19 |
|
North Vancouver |
North Shore Crisis Services Society |
8:30am-12:30pm |
BCGEU |
35 |
|
North Vancouver |
North Shore Disability Resource Centre Associations |
8:30am-12:30pm |
CUPE |
108 |
Thursday, February 7, 2013
|
Community |
Agency |
Picket location & time |
Union |
Members impacted |
|
Kamloops |
Interior Community Services (ICS) |
8:30am- 4:30pm |
BCGEU/UFCW |
90+26 |
|
Nelson |
Kootenay Kids |
9am-4pm 312 Silica St. |
BCGEU |
35 |
|
Castlegar |
Castlegar & District Community Services |
8:30am ... 4:30pm |
BCGEU |
15 |
|
Trail |
Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays |
7am - 7 pm |
BCGEU |
5 |
|
Trail |
Trail Family & Individual Resource Centre Society (FAIR) |
8am-8pm |
BCGEU |
35 |
|
Cranbrook |
Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays |
9am-1pm |
BCGEU |
10 |
|
Cranbrook |
Community Connections of Southeast BC (including Cranbrook Womens Resource Centre) |
9am-1pm |
BCGEU |
5 |
|
Vernon |
North Okanagan Youth & Family Services |
8:30am-1pm |
CUPE |
50 |
|
Total members impacted |
488 |
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No HSA worksites are affected during this weeks job action. HSA activists -- from Cameray Family Services and Deltassist Family Services -- are supporting the picket line at North Shore Crisis Centre. HSA encourages all members to support the above picket lines on your personal time or on breaks.
BCGEU, CUPE, HEU, HSA and six other unions, which together make up the Community Social Services Bargaining Association, represent family service workers. There are 15,000 unionized community social service workers, and about one-third of them work in general services, which includes family services.