George Heyman

With collective bargaining underway on 182 labour agreements in B.C.’s public sector, the province has hired George Heyman, the former head of the B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU) and the former environment and climate change minister, to advise the government on negotiating the core public service agreement. …There are 452,000 unionized public sector employees in B.C. … Most of these unions are working under expiring agreements this year, with the Public Service Agency’s collective agreement with the BCGEU up for renegotiation first. This includes wildland firefighters… Heyman is hired on with a contract that ends on July 31. He is set to make a maximum of $58,000. The hiring of consultants to advise premiers on labour negotiations is not unprecedented. Paul Faoro, the former president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees – B.C., advised John Horgan and Lee Doney, the former Western Forest Products board chair and a former deputy minister, advised Christy Clark.