{"id":20147,"date":"2020-11-05T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/bee-clean-building-maintenance-janitors-win-benefits-wage-boost-in-first-collective-agreement-152041"},"modified":"2020-11-05T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:00:27","slug":"b-c-based-janitors-win-benefits-wage-boost-in-first-collective-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/b-c-based-janitors-win-benefits-wage-boost-in-first-collective-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C.-based janitors win benefits, wage boost in first collective agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Bee-Clean-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"B.C.-based janitors win benefits, wage boost in first collective agreement\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 5, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Bee-Clean Building Maintenance janitors in British Columbia ratified their first collective agreement on Monday, winning&nbsp;employer-paid health and dental benefits,&nbsp;paid sick days and a wage boost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Employees&nbsp;who are members of Services Employees International Union Local 2 reached the tentative agreement on Friday, mere days before they were set to picket at various locations across B.C.\u2019s Lower Mainland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefits are a big victory for us,\u201d said Teresita Garvez, a Bee-Clean janitor who cleans at an office tower in Vancouver, in a press release from the union. \u201cI\u2019m getting older and I need those benefits. Paying out-of-pocket for dental and physiotherapy is difficult. And especially for my co-workers with children, these benefits mean a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/loyalist-college-janitors-new-contract-includes-pension-and-sick-days-149281\">Loyalist College janitors\u2019 new contract includes pension, sick days<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new health benefits cover prescription drugs, health equipment and paramedical services such as vision care and massage therapy. Dependants and part-time janitors will be eligible to enrol. Janitors also won additional paid time off and improved vacation pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost janitors in British Columbia are non-unionized and work for minimum wage, with no access to paid sick days and health benefits,\u201d said&nbsp;the&nbsp;release. \u201cJanitors seeking to improve these working conditions are increasingly turning to unionization. SEIU Local 2 is experiencing a surge of new members joining from the janitorial industry and will continue investing resources into organizing these essential workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bee-Clean Building Maintenance&nbsp;<span>didn\u2019t respond to&nbsp;<\/span><em><span>Benefits Canada<\/span><\/em>\u2019s request for a comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/bee-clean-building-maintenance-janitors-win-benefits-wage-boost-in-first-collective-agreement-152041\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 5, 2020 Bee-Clean Building Maintenance janitors in British Columbia ratified their first collective agreement on Monday, winning&nbsp;employer-paid health and dental benefits,&nbsp;paid sick days and a wage boost.&nbsp; Employees&nbsp;who are members of Services Employees&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}