BC Public Service Staff Launch Picket Lines After Strike Deadline Expires

Members of the British Columbia General Employees' Union picket outside a B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch facility, in Delta, BC on August 15, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

The union that represents thousands of British Columbia public service workers says picket lines are going up in three cities today as industrial action begins across the province.

The BC General Employees’ Union says picket lines are being launched at multiple sites in Victoria, as well as at one location each in the Metro Vancouver municipality of Surrey and Prince George in the northern Interior.