Paul has represented unionized professionals since 1992. In 1994 he became the FSA's first grievance officer. Before rejoining the FSA as Executive Director, Paul represented professional employees in the federal government and developed innovative strategies to achieve gains for members in a very challenging labour relations environment. Paul has also worked as a mediator and facilitator in the co-op housing sector since 1997. Paul works closely with the FSA Executive Committee on policy matters, oversees the union's labour relations work, leads collective bargaining, and is the manager of the FSA office.
Staff
The FSA employs full time staff to run the day-to-day operations of the association.
The FSA’s labour relations staff work as a team and often collaborate on files. All our reps have the resources to deal with most situations likely to arise at BCIT. Individual files are assigned based on current workloads, familiarity with an issue or with related issues in that work area. Sometimes files may be passed from one rep to another for a variety of reasons.
Members seeking to bring a new issue to the attention of the FSA are encouraged first to contact Christine Nagy.
Email: hneun@bcit.ca
604.432.8695
Heather joined the FSA in January 2010. She was called to the B.C. bar in 1998 after graduating with her law degree from UBC and articling at a large Vancouver firm. After practicing with a complex litigation firm from 1998 to 2001, she joined one of Vancouver’s premier labour-side law firms where she practiced labour, human rights, and disability law until mid-2008. She continued to conduct labour law research for the firm until 2010.
Prior to joining the FSA, Heather spent 1.5 years in Costa Rica, studying international human rights law and Spanish, and working at the Centre for Justice and International Law in San José, where she did legal advocacy as a member of the Mexico litigation team. In particular, she worked on the submissions of victims of human rights violations in cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Email: cnagy@bcit.ca
604.432.8695
Christine joined the FSA in October 2008. Previously she worked for the New Westminster School District, where she spent five and one-half years serving the management team as a Human Resource Officer. Among other things in New West, her responsibilities included recruitment, grievance management, job evaluation, managing the HRIS, and collective bargaining for support staff.
Christine's involvement in the labour movement first began in 1979, when she organized a small outfit into the United Food and Commercial Worker's Union, and she subsequently became the chief shop steward. Following that, Christine spent seven years at the Langley School District where she became involved on the executive team of her CUPE local. In addition to serving two terms as president, she sat on union committees at the district, provincial and national level.
Email: trebbitt@bcit.ca
604.451.7161
Tess joined the FSA in April 2011. Tess holds a CHRP and is a member of BCHRMA. She has a Business Management Certificate with Distinction from BCIT and continues to pursue both the Human Resources Management Certificate and the Associate Certificate in Leadership.
Previously she worked on the Human Resources team at HandyDART during the transition from a small Vancouver non-profit society to a Lower Mainland for-profit company. In addition to being part of the bargaining team that negotiated the first Collective Agreement and working through a three-month strike, her responsibilities included recruitment and selection, HRIS management, employee engagement and benefits administration.
Email: mangerilli@bcit.ca
604.432.8356
Maria joined the FSA in October 2011. She works closely with the FSA Board of Directors, the President and Executive Director assisting them with the overall operations of the FSA office.
Maria has over 12 years of experience supporting senior level executives in both the Commercial Real Estate & Retail industries.
Email: pdayson@bcit.ca
604.432.8946
Paul joined the FSA in January 2009. He has over 20 years of experience in communications for a range of organizations in the non-profit and post-secondary sectors, including previous work at BCIT in the 1990s when he served as the Student Association's publications manager.
Email: mciccone@bcit.ca
604.412.7408
Marian joined the FSA staff in 1996. Marian provides administrative support which includes maintaining the various filing systems, reception and other related duties.