This piece was written by FSA leadership with input from FSA members. As BCIT prepares to roll out its 2019-21 Education Plan the FSA is keeping an eye on its contents to ensure that it meets the needs of both learners and educators and other employees at BCIT. Through conversations with FSA members we already
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Thank you to everyone who voted in the FSA 2019 elections. And a special thank you to all the candidates who stepped up to run. As of June 2019, they will join the FSA executive in governing your faculty and staff association. We are pleased to congratulate the following candidates: Treasurer Terry Gordon (Acclaimed) Directors-at-Large Kevin Cudihee Karl Hildebrandt Shannon Kelly
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Colin Jones, FSA Chief Negotiator Collective bargaining is the process of establishing a collective bargaining agreement (or CBA or CA or “contract”) between an employer (in our case, BCIT) and its employees represented by an independent trade union (in our case, the BCITFSA). Our recent collective agreements have had a duration of 3-5 years each
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Zaa Joseph, FSA Director, Equity Caucus Liaison In May 2017, the FSA Board of Directors approved an Equity Policy for the Association and in June 2018 formed an FSA Equity Caucus (EC) with Terms of Reference seeking to bring the FSA’s Equity Policy to life. As the Board liaison to the EC, we hosted a
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