Member Bulletins & Advisories

May Newsletter – Bargaining Update + Request and More

May Newsletter – Bargaining Update + Request and More

May 2026 With deep gratitude for his contributions to UVic and the greater community, the Faculty Association wishes to acknowledge the recent passing of an important and highly respected Elder from the Songhee’s Nation. His great work and impact on the community have been acknowledged in other announcements and conversations in recent weeks. The Faculty Association would specifically like to acknowledge his support of our work through his wise words at the opening of bargaining during the last two rounds…

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Bargaining Update

Bargaining Update

Dear Members, I hope all is well with you and you are having some time to enjoy the lovely weather. It was great to see so many of you at our AGM and Social last week. On behalf of our bargaining team, here is our latest bargaining update. Your bargaining team is very happy that we now have the full monetary mandate from the provincial government that had already been offered to other BC public sector unions. We were able…

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Bargaining Update

Bargaining Update

Dear Members, I’m writing with the very positive news that as a result of the active mobilization of our CUPE colleagues on campus, their willingness to move to strike votes, and the support of the FA and PEA for CUPE actions, that the provincial government has now agreed to provide the same full financial mandate to the CUPE unions, the UVic FA and PEA as what has already been offered to all of the other public sector unions in the…

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Unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories

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.

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