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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This posting is now closed. Full-Time, Interim (1 year minimum or until return of Incumbent, whichever is greater) The BCIT Faculty and Staff Association in Burnaby is seeking an Interim Labour Relations Representative (LRR) beginning as soon as possible as a backfill for a staff member on leave. The BCIT FSA is a union of 1,600
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The FSA acknowledges International Women’s Day as an opportunity to reflect upon the work we are doing, and the work we still have to do, to support women and girls. Last year a colleague was lamenting that there still was not equality between genders. I said that I totally agreed but also stated that enormous
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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
Read more →Colin Jones, FSA Chief Negotiator For members who missed the General Meeting last week, I wanted to give you a brief update about what has been going on recently. Early last year, the BC government released their public sector bargaining mandate for the 183 contracts set to expire in 2019. The mandate is for 3-year (2019-2022)
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