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FPSE Stands in Solidarity with Nursing Faculty at Okanagan College
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Vancouver, BC, April 5, 2023 Faculty were shocked to learn Monday April 3rd that year 1 and 2 of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at Okanagan College is being shut down. Nursing faculty were called to a meeting at 5pm after their full workday and informed of the closure…
Post-Secondary Unions Call for Safer Return in January
For immediate release – Vancouver, BC, December 22, 2021 With the Omicron variant, faculty and staff at BC’s post-secondary institutions are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases among students and campus communities. As this year wraps up, some have managed to implement online exams through the end of term to minimize transmission but as the…
BC post-secondary unions support University of Manitoba faculty on strike
(Winnipeg, Nov 29, 2021) Union leaders from BC are walking the picket lines with faculty at the University of Manitoba today in support of faculty calls for increased wages and an end to provincial government interference in collective bargaining. In addition to walking the line, the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC donated $10,000.00 to…
BC Post-Secondary contract workers make gains, but pay equity gaps remain
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories (Vancouver) – Today is the first day of Fair Employment Week, an international campaign to bring attention to the working conditions of contract faculty. After a bargaining process that stretched out over a year, there are mixed results for contract faculty at BC colleges and teaching universities.…
Post-Secondary Educators’ Union Partners with Indigenous Radio Station, Academics, Authors, to Bring Message of Decolonization to More Audiences
This National Indigenous History Month, a BC post-secondary union has partnered with Indigenous radio station Nuxalk Radio to promote Indigenous voices. As an overdue conversation about systemic racism is taking place in Canada, more Canadians are asking how they can help. For those wondering how to get started, there are now new ways to learn…
Private post-secondary layoffs continue; union concerned about what comes next
For immediate release: The closure of inlingua Vancouver effective May 29 adds 20 more job losses to a sector already hard-hit by COVID-19. Coupled with job losses or layoffs from other unionized institutions, the Education and Training Employees’ Association, the union representing the workers, estimates that its membership has been reduced by half. Among the…
BC municipalities support federation call to pay contract faculty fairly
For immediate releaseFriday October 4, 2019 VANCOUVER – Ten municipalities across BC are supporting fairness for contract faculty through motions, proclamations, and public letters of support in the leadup to Fair Employment Week, an international campaign that calls attention to the working conditions experienced by contract faculty at post-secondary institutions. “This show of support from…
Adult basic education students face government claw back – FPSE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2016 VANCOUVER— Low-income British Columbians trying to upgrade their skills are now learning they face yet another roadblock, says the president of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators. At tax time, students are discovering the provincially administered Adult Upgrading Grant is considered taxable income, so some who qualified this year could…
BC Budget fails students, communities – CFS-BC, FPSE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2016 VICTORIA— Another year, another missed opportunity to invest in post-secondary education and address growing problems with affordability. That’s the message from the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators and Canadian Federation of Students-BC, as the 2016 BC Budget delivers another year of flat funding to BC’s colleges and universities. “Once again,…
Labour leaders denounce ‘anti-democratic’ Bill 18
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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…