Bulletin
BCH & Powertech – Cyberattack – Breach of Personal Information
March 9, 2021
To: All MoveUP members at BCH & Powertech
Your union has received feedback from the membership regarding the Powertech cyberattack. We sincerely empathize with our membership and understand the stress and anxiety this situation caused our members. In particular, we are very concerned to now learn that personal data of employees, spouses and retirees has been comprised. We completely understand that this breach can give rise to identify theft for our members. Your union is taking this matter very seriously and we are holding your employer accountable.
Your union has filed a policy grievance on this matter, please see attached here. This is a newly emerging section of labour law and we will be meeting with your employer to discuss our grievance and remedy. Please ensure you follow all directives being relayed from your employer to minimize the impact of this attack, (i.e. signing up for credit monitoring, opening up a secondary savings account for pay, notifying all your financial institutions to monitor for fraudulent activity). Your union will provide you with updates regarding this policy grievance as they become available. If you have any questions on this matter please feel free to reach out to your Powertech job stewards or myself.
In solidarity,
Barbara Junker, Union Representative
Rysa Kronebusch, Vice-President, Utilities