September 30, 2023, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR), which honours the victims of residential and day schools, their families, and communities. The schools operated on this land between 1831 and 1996, part of a broader project of nation building that experts in Canadian History now recognize as genocide. All week, the National
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On September 27, FSA President Colin Jones and ITS member Andrew Jackson hosted an event explaining the Leave as it’s granted by Article 10.6 of the Collective Agreement. The seminar focused on best practices and the history of 10.6, which is perhaps of especial to Specialized Faculty, who were included in 10.6 for the first time after
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The recently ratified BCIT/FSA collective agreement has resulted in retroactive pay for eligible employees who worked between July 1, 2022 and the date of ratification, July 13, 2023. We have been working with BCIT to ensure that you receive any retroactive pay to which you’re entitled. However, for some employees and former employees, receiving retroactive
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This week, far-right and anti-trans groups across Canada have organized protests, rallies, and other gatherings in opposition to longstanding education policies designed to make K-12 schools safer and more inclusive spaces, both for 2SLGBTQIA+ children and everyone in the school community. In the wake of these anti-trans protests, we want to state unequivocally that the
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