Member Bulletins & Advisories

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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Dear Members, I hope that all is well with you at this busy time of the term. On behalf of your negotiating team, I am writing to update you on bargaining. As you may have heard in the news, the BCGEU has accepted a tentative settlement with the government, although this settlement still needs to be ratified by their membership. If it is ratified, it is likely to have a positive impact on our bargaining progress, as it should result…

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October, 2025 BARGAINING UPDATE This fall the FA team have been presenting important proposals at the bargaining table. While we await a resolution of the BCGEU strike, and have provided some much-appreciated support for them on the picket lines, until the government and the BCGEU settle, leading to a public sector financial mandate, we cannot address monetary matters at the table. However, we could be making progress on a range of important non-monetary matters. We have presented data from the…

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