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FPSE Responds to 2025 Provincial Budget
For Immediate Release March 4, 2025 “We were hoping to have some temporary contingency funding to address the crisis at BC colleges and universities in the wake of the dramatic […]
FPSE Responds to 2024 Provincial Budget
FPSE Responds to 2024 Provincial Budget For Immediate Release February 22, 2024 The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC (FPSE) attended the budget lock-up today ahead of Finance Minister […]
FPSE Statement on Resignation of Selina Robinson
FPSE Statement on Resignation of Selina Robinson For Immediate Release February 5, 2024 The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC (FPSE) was pleased to see Premier Eby accept Selina Robinson’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
