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…
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…
Dear Members, I hope you’re well. I’m writing with several bargaining-related updates. Although we’re not currently bargaining, we expect to resume in early September. The provincial mandate is still pending, likely awaiting a settlement between the BC government and a major public-sector union such as the BCGEU. The latter union is currently holding a strike vote. A strike could begin in early September. As in 2022, strike action by the BCGEU may help ensure better settlements across the BC public…
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.
