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CUPE heads back to bargaining in BC’s colleges sector
In the late spring of 2011, CUPE as part of the Colleges and Institutes Support Staff Bargaining Association (CISSBA), put provincial bargaining on hold to try and make some progress at local tables. After months of a frustrating lack of progress with individual employers, CUPE bargaining reps are headed back to the provincial college sector table with a position that four years of zero percent wage increases are not acceptable.
Union leaders denounce ‘anti-democratic’ Bill 18
BURNABY—The presidents of the three largest unions in the post-secondary sector – the Federation of Post Secondary Educators (FPSE), the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU), and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) – have united in opposition to the B.C. Liberal government’s anti-democratic amendments to the College and Institute Act and the University Act, being debated in the legislature as part of Bill 18.
BC Jobs Plan failing northern communities
Community college layoffs reflect lack of commitment to northern economy
BURNABY—With an unemployment rate in northern B.C. sitting at 11.5 per cent and layoffs looming at northern colleges, the B.C. government’s vaunted BC Jobs Plan is failing northern communities, unions representing post secondary workers said today.
Fall Newsletter from CUPE 2081 at Camosun College
The CUPE 2081 newsletter, The Pressure Point, is published four times a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. The Pressure Point serves to keep members up to date about important issues, opportunities and events.
Fall 2011 Bargaining Update
A message from the CUPE Colleges Bargaining Council (CCBC) on the status of provincial bargaining.