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FPSE Demands Action on Layoffs and Funding Cuts

FPSE News
Mar 25, 2025
FPSE Demands Action on Layoffs and Funding Cuts For Immediate Release March 25, 2025 The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC (FPSE) is sounding the alarm as layoffs of faculty members have...
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FPSE Calls for Immediate Resignation of the Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills

FPSE News
Feb 1, 2024
FPSE Calls for Immediate Resignation of the Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills For Immediate Release February 1, 2024 The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC (FPSE) joined...
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CAUT calls for B.C. minister’s resignation over political interference

FPSE News
Feb 1, 2024
CAUT calls for B.C. minister’s resignation over political interference (Ottawa – February 1, 2024) The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is joining the Federation of Post-Secondary...
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BC Jobs Plan failing northern communities: Community college layoffs reflect lack of commitment to northern economy

FPSE News
Feb 2, 2012
With an unemployment rate in northern BC 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...
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Make Post-Secondary Education More Affordable: FPSE Puts Its Support behind National Day of Action by Students

FPSE News
Feb 1, 2012
"We know post-secondary education is a key to building a better BC, so why don't we make it more accessible," said Cindy Oliver, President of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators. "Tuition fees...
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Post-Secondary Education: It's worth the investment

President's Comment
Jan 25, 2012
Post-secondary education is a key to prosperity, not just for the society that is prepared to provide that education, but also for the students who are prepared to take on the opportunity for learning...
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Post-secondary instructors reach 2010 common table settlement

FPSE News
Dec 16, 2011
Nearly two years after the expiry of their collective agreement, post-secondary instructors have reached a tentative settlement that concludes the 2010 round of provincial common table negotiations...
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December 6th: Wear white

President's Comment
Dec 1, 2011
December 6th marks a tragic anniversary, one in which 14 female students at Quebec's École Polytechnique de Montréal were killed by a lone gunman. Ten other female students were also injured during...
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Latest fiscal update shows BC Liberals’ economic policies in serious disarray

President's Comment
Dec 1, 2011
What happens when a government relentlessly cuts corporate tax rates? The public treasury ends up in the red. That's part of what has happened in BC, but to hear Finance Minster Kevin Falcon talk...
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Proposed Post-Secondary Legislation Will Strip Faculty Rights say Educators

FPSE News
Nov 4, 2011
Proposed Amendments Would Disallow Faculty Reps from Election to Local Boards "Premier Clark said she wants to do politics differently," said Cindy Oliver President of the 10,000 member Federation of...
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Hands Up for Fair Employment

President's Comment
Oct 25, 2011
This week in post-secondary institutions across Canada faculty and staff are highlighting the problems that non-regular faculty face in their demand for fair employment. It is a struggle that every...
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Discrimination case reminds us all how much more needs to be done

President's Comment
Sep 15, 2011
For as long as there has been a women's movement in Canada, there has been an active campaign to both highlight the ways in which women are discriminated and change the conditions that allow that...
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Polling Data Shows Growing Gap between Voters and Government on Post-Secondary Education

President's Comment
Sep 6, 2011
August has not been a great month for BC's Premier Clark. The results of the HST referendum showed that even in many of the BC Liberal held ridings, the majority voted to get rid of the HST, a...
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