Office workers at B.C. Transit’s Victoria headquarters have voted 96 per cent in favour of striking over a proposed 50 per cent cut in their extended health benefits. Members of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union Local 378 are determined not to lose $250 of the current $500 in coverage for each of six or seven different health services they have been receiving for more than 30 years, said spokeswoman Jarrah Hodge. “The rest of the public sector hasn’t had to take these kinds of benefit concessions,” Hodge said, referring to chiropractic, naturopathy, physiotherapy, speech pathology, podiatry, acupuncture and massage therapy. “It’s unlikely that anyone needs to use the maximum on all those services, but when you need them, you need them.” Read more: timescolonist/news/local/b-c-transit-office-workers-at-victoria-hq-vote-to-strike-1.1376739
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:45:01 +0000
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