Member Bulletins & Advisories

Dear Members, Happy New Year! We are very disappointed to have to report to you that after some promising meetings in December, that bargaining is not going well. After a deeply frustrating and demoralizing day at the bargaining table yesterday, the administration’s team, led by Pamela Richards and Helga Hallgrimsdottir, sent out a very misleading email regarding bargaining which includes statements about their monetary package and the information that they have filed for mediation. We will address all of these…

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December, 2025 BARGAINING UPDATE   Dear Members, I hope you are seeing the end of your marking and looking forward to a well-deserved break. Provincial Mandate In bargaining news, the BCGEU and the HEU (Hospital Employees’ Union) have both settled their collective agreements with the BC government. This should mean that we can move forward with bargaining on monetary matters. Unfortunately, it is not that simple. While normally the financial mandate offered to the biggest public sector unions is the…

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November, 2025 BARGAINING UPDATE We were pleased to learn on November 13th that the BCGEU membership ratified their tentative agreement, with almost 90 percent of members in favour. We hope that their settlement will form the basis of the provincial financial mandate for all public sector unions (including the UVicFA), but that has not yet been clarified. Our last bargaining date with the administration was November 6th. We had agreed to not bargain over Reading Break, and the admin recently…

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