Member Bulletins & Advisories

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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Bargaining News – Course Reviews Replaced with Continuous Learning, Effective Now

Bargaining News – Course Reviews Replaced with Continuous Learning, Effective Now

Dear Members, As I informed you in February, we had agreed with the University at the bargaining table that we would replace course reviews with continuous learning.  A number of you have asked when this change would be implemented.  We are very pleased to inform you that the agreement we have come to with the University to replace course reviews with continuous learning will be implemented as of now, through a Letter of Understanding (LOU) with the University.  The Letter of…

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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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