Members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) employed by the B.C. Public Service have ratified an agreement reached in mediation on Oct. 26, 2025.

The agreement represents approximately 36,000 people working in occupations that provide core government services, such as social workers, employment assistance workers, biologists, court clerks, sheriffs and correctional officers in public safety, as well as the unionized members of the Liquor Distribution Branch, the BC Pension Corporation, Destination BC and the Royal BC Museum.

Highlights of some terms and conditions reached through the mediation process include targeted market and classification adjustments for low wage and hard-to-recruit occupations, and creation of dedicated remote positions. These changes will help improve and maintain stable service delivery throughout the province.

The four-year term and annual 3% general wage increases included in the BCGEU Main Agreement will also apply across the broader provincial public sector negotiations as part of the 2025 Balanced Measures Mandate.

As is the case with the framework agreement reached with the Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA), the BCGEU Main Agreement in the Public Service includes additional increases that are over and above what will be made available to the rest of the public sector as part of the 2025 Balanced Measures Mandate.

Since 2014, public sector bargaining mandates have allowed for enhanced mandates to address unique challenges threatening critical service delivery at specific tables. This has included the low wage redress mandates in the community health and community social services sectors.  In addition to the low wage redress mandates, government is extending enhanced mandates in this round to the FBA and the BCGEU Main Agreement in response to the increasing affordability and labour market pressures facing those tables.

There are more than 593,000 people working across the provincial public sector, including the core BC Public Service, Crown corporations, health, community social services, K-12 public education, post-secondary institutions, and research universities. Of those people, approximately 452,000 are unionized employees paid under collective agreements or professionals paid through negotiated compensation agreements.

*Compensation Data from PSEC’s April 1, 2025 Forecast

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To learn more about public-sector bargaining in B.C., visit: www.gov.bc.ca/psecbargaining