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FPSE Responds to 2024 Provincial Budget

FPSE News
Feb 22, 2024
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...
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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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Fair Employment Week: Standing together and standing strong

President's Comment
Oct 23, 2009
October 26 marks the beginning of Fair Employment Week when post-secondary educators across Canada and the United States speak out on the problems facing contingent academic staff. The problems are...
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Dialogue with government: It’s time they listened more

President's Comment
Oct 22, 2009
Every year Presidents' Council devotes a full day session to meeting with MLAs in Victoria. Our objective is to give both opposition and government MLAs a firsthand report on how our public post...
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Credibility crunch undermines post-secondary goals

President's Comment
Sep 3, 2009
Good government and collective bargaining have one thing in common: their ultimate success depends on good faith. Diminish that good faith in any way and you set in motion a process that ultimately de...
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2009 BC Budget backgrounder

FPSE News
Sep 1, 2009
The provincial government has tabled an update of its February 2009 budget. The revised budget highlights some remarkable changes in BC's fiscal conditions. Prior to the February budget, the BC...
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2009 Budget update: credibility and funding suffer

FPSE News
Sep 1, 2009
“There’s nothing to cheer about in this update,” said George Davison, Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators. “Funding at our public institutions is not keeping pace with...
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New poll points to renewed investments in public services

President's Comment
Aug 27, 2009
Part Two As Finance Minister Colin Hansen prepares to table a revised provincial budget next week, he would do well to consider the results of a mid-August poll done by Ipsos Research. The poll...
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Poll shows gap between public’s priorities and actions of Campbell government

FPSE News
Aug 27, 2009
Results of a mid-August poll by Ipsos Reid, done on behalf of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators, a number of public sector unions and the BC Federation of Labour, show strong support for...
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Funding problems overshadowed by deficit woes

President's Comment
Aug 21, 2009
Part One To hear Finance Minister Colin Hansen describe BC's current fiscal situation you would think that he just discovered the word recession in his briefing notes. Somehow, despite almost a year...
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Troubling news from Victoria

President's Comment
Jul 10, 2009
Several of our local faculty associations have received word that funding for Regional Literacy Coordinators is "under review" by the provincial government. This news comes on the heels of the July 9...
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Deciphering the latest cabinet shuffle

President's Comment
Jun 11, 2009
New mandates and new Members of the Legislative Assembly were obvious starting points for Premier Campbell as he announced the new line-up of Cabinet Ministers in Victoria. The challenge over the...
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