Member Bulletins & Advisories

Dear Members, As described in our bargaining update on Friday, UVic’s bargaining team recently attempted to avoid bargaining directly with your negotiating team by moving prematurely to mediation, and has yet to take your concerns around workload, autonomy, and equity seriously. While the Labour Board has instructed the University to get back to the table, UVic’s admin needs to hear from you and your colleagues that they need to take bargaining seriously. This petition is the first opportunity we have…

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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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