Member Bulletins & Advisories

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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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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