The province’s public-service employees have voted 71 per cent in favour of a new collective two-year agreement. The agreement with the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) gives its members improved extended-health benefits, including hearing aids and leave for family illness involving a spouse or adult dependent children. The deal took pay raises off the table because of the province’s two-year wage freeze. The agreement — which expires on March 31, 2012 — covers the 29,000 members of the BCGEU, including child-protection workers, health-care workers, environment officials, corrections officers and sheriffs, conservation officers, public liquor store employees, and administrative workers across the province.
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