The weather was drizzly and dreary, but the spirit of an estimated 2,000 striking B.C. Government Employees Union members was upbeat in a noon-hour rally and march in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday.

The union handed out bright yellow rain ponchos and yellow BCGEU flags to wave along the march, which started at the Georgia Street side of the Vancouver Art Gallery, went up Burrard and West Cordova and ended up at Jack Poole Plaza beside the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.

Before the march, the union president said, “We want to send a clear message to government that they need to come back to the table with a fair offer, a reasonable offer.

“They have choices here,” Paul Finch said. “They’re not going to balance the budget off of wage suppression of the civil service. They’ve massi

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