Written by the FSA Caucus on Part-Time Studies (COPTS) In 2016 the BCITFSA produced a series of videos to bring attention to some of the issues that face our members whose work is precarious in nature. These issues disproportionally affect members who work in Part-Time Studies at BCIT but may also impact those in other
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Originally published in our April 2019 FSA Voice newsletter. We encourage all members to know about the importance of Initial Placement so that when new colleagues start in your Department you can encourage them to ensure that they have been placed properly. We have several “hard to fill/difficult to recruit to” disciplines where having this knowledge is key. In
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Originally published in our October 2018 FSA Voice newsletter. Over the last year, the FSA has seen an increase in members using collective agreement provisions to dispute excess workload assignments. Collective Agreement Articles 8.8 and 8.9 (for instructional and non-instructional staff respectively) provide three levels of dispute resolution. The Workload Dispute Process gives members the opportunity to
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Since 2014 the BCIT Faculty & Staff Association have partnered with BCIT and the BCIT Alumni Association for the Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA) by honouring a BCIT alumnus who returned to the Institute as an FSA member. In January we put a call out for nominations from the membership. The FSA board deliberated over the
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bcitfsaRT @bcit: "This new state-of-the-art building is going to be a game changer for health-care students at BCIT", said @melaniejmark, Minister…Wed Dec 04 18:12:51 +0000 2019
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