Dear Members, I hope all is well with all of you. I am writing to provide a brief update on bargaining, on behalf of your Negotiating Team. We had our final spring/summer bargaining session with the administration’s team last week. We resume bargaining in early September. As I noted in my last email, we hope that by September we will be closer to having received a financial mandate from the BC government, which will allow us to start discussing monetary…
Dear Members, I hope that all is well with you. Bargaining Update Just a brief update on bargaining, on behalf of your Negotiating Team. Over the past six weeks we have generally been meeting weekly to exchange proposals with the Admin team, but since we do not yet have a provincial mandate (see below) we will be taking a break for the summer after next week’s bargaining session. Your Negotiating Team will be working on our responses to a number…
Dear Members, I hope that all is well with you, and that you have had some time to enjoy the good weather. Bargaining Update I wanted to give you an update of how things are going in bargaining, on behalf of your Negotiating Team. Thanks very much to all of you who responded to our recent brief survey. It was very helpful in responding to the administration’s proposal. The FA Team has been working hard on developing detailed proposals to…
We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
We acknowledge the devastation that government-created residential schools and Indian hospitals have inflicted on the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples and the ongoing effectics of concentric trauma that continue to this day.
