On Monday, June 18, while over 75 tourism operators were holding a media conference to outline their support for getting salmon netpens out of the water, the BC Government and Service Employees' Union, representing over 76,000 British Columbians in 550 bargaining units across the province, issued its own release announcing it has signed the Declaration in Defence of Wild Salmon (found at www.safesalmon.ca)

The BCGEU joins the Public and Private Workers of Canada, who earlier this year refused to certify salmon farm workers until the farms are moved to land.