International Worker’s Day serves as a reminder of how we all benefit from past gains made by workers and their unions as well as our own responsibility to workers everywhere. Too easily, we can take for granted successes of the past, like paid sick leave, job security, occupational health and safety, the grievance process, the
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Jamie Finley, FSA Member With mobilizing intersections in mind, it was remarkable to me as an individual with a Deaf identity how intersections through equity seeking groups describe more commonalities than differences between us. After listening to the six plenary sessions and two keynote speakers, one theme that I see that keeps coming up is
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Thank you to everyone who voted in the FSA 2018 elections. And a special thank you to all the candidates who stepped up to run. We are pleased to congratulate the following candidates: Peter Fenrich (President) Vnit Nath (Vice President) A by-election was also held for a vacant Director, Associate Members spot and Chas Bains was acclaimed
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Congratulations to Peter Fenrich (Incoming President) and Vnit Nath (Incoming Vice President). Peter has extensive experience at BCIT in a variety of different roles. Part of that experience includes teaching in Part-Time Studies (PTS). This, and his long experience as a Tech Rep, will serve him well as leads our union over the next two
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Solidarity was the theme of this year’s CAUT negotiator’s conference and the discussions were highly relevant to the BCIT FSA. From the keynote speaker to the closing discussion, the topics reflected the realities and the interests of the FSA and its members. The keynote speaker was JP Hornick, chair of the union bargaining team in
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Voting is open Noon, March 9 – Noon, April 6, 2018. FSA members have the opportunity to vote for candidates to represent their interests on the FSA Board of Directors for the 2018-20 term for President & Vice President and for the remainder of a 2017-19 term for a Director, Associate Members. Nominations were accepted from Feb 7th
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