UFV Faculty and Staff, On February 25, the UFV and FSA bargaining teams resumed negotiations for the new collective agreement. We received a detailed and comprehensive package from the Association today. We will be working very hard to analyze the material presented, and to prepare a response as soon as possible. For updates on the status […]
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UFV’s Collective Bargaining Principles continue to guide employer bargaining team
The FSA held its Extraordinary General Meeting on January 28, 2016 to present its proposed bargaining package to members. UFV is anticipating the FSA’s call to resume negotiations for the new collective agreement, spanning the period of 2014 to 2019. How will UFV approach these continued negotiations? We are guided by a set of bargaining […]
Public Sector Economic Stability Dividend
UFV Faculty and Staff, We are passing along this news release from the Ministry of Finance, regarding a 0.45% salary increase for unionized public sector employees who have reached agreements under the BC Government’s Economic Stability Mandate for collective bargaining. This pay increase is not available to UFV unionized employees, as we do not have […]
October 2015 meetings
UFV and the FSA met on October 14 to introduce the new members on the FSA negotiations team and to review the Protocol Agreement. The parties met again on October 21 to discuss how to move negotiations forward. We remain confident that we can build on the hard work both sides have done, and for the […]