The FSA is proud to announce that we have now officially established a new endowment to support the dependents of our members and retired members on their post-secondary academic journeys. The fund was born of a long-standing disappointment we’ve had at the bargaining table. The FSA has proposed tuition waivers for the dependents of members
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Updated October 22, 2023 BCIT’s message to FSA members about parking, sent on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, is the latest in a series of chain reactions set off by the employer’s unwillingness to respect the need for our Union’s agreement to any changes to parking regulations and policies. BCIT has returned to designated FSA parking
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Cheryl Emmett, an FSA member in Nursing, wrote to us recently with a reoccurring payroll problem. The moral of the story is to please check your paystubs! ________ I recently emailed Human Resources inquiring about my Step Level in anticipation of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement pay raise. They emailed back and I was informed that my
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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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