Member Bulletins & Advisories

Dear Members, I hope all is well with you.  I wanted to let you know that your Negotiating Team met with the administration’s team yesterday afternoon for our first bargaining session since early July. We have been working hard over the last two months on developing bargaining proposals. Yesterday we presented a significant proposal about maintaining and improving our collegial governance rights, as well as proposals to provide librarians with collegial governance rights that more closely parallel those of faculty…

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Dear Members, We invite and encourage you to join us at 675 Belleville street (Royal BC Museum) today, September 19th, from 3-4pm in support of BCEGU and PEA workers currently on strike. If you have an FA button already, please wear it! If not, we will have some to hand out. This is an excellent way to learn about what is at stake for BCGEU and PEA workers, connect with colleagues, and show support for their bargaining team and their…

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Dear Members, As you know, support for student accommodations have been reduced over the past few years, with cuts to CAL hours, pressure to reduce the need for accommodations by introducing Universal Design into one’s courses, reductions in what kinds of exams OREM will support, and VPAC statements that OREM will only be providing this support for one more year.  The reduction in supports has and continues to increase faculty workload, and the threat of further cuts to student accommodation…

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