Contracts Ratified By Support Staff In Six BC School Districts
Prince George, B.C. – Support staff in six B.C. school districts have ratified new five-year contracts with the provincial government.
The more than 3,000 support workers, members of CUPE, are employed by school districts in Burnaby, West Vancouver, Powell River, Sooke, Vancouver Islsand West and Comox Valley.
The term of the new contract runs from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019. It provides a 5.5% wage increase over the five years of the term, with potential for additional increases if the B.C. economy exceeds the annual forecasts set by the Economic Forecast Council during the last four years of the agreement.
Within 30 days of ratification of a new collective agreement by a board of education, the local union and BCPSEA, the board will reimburse each employee for all scheduled hours that the employee and has not been paid during the BCTF strike.
The six districts are the first to ratify agreements with their support staff. The other 55 districts in the province are working to ratify new contracts by November.
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No signing bonus? Wonder if they get massages and back pay to 2000?
See, teachers? That’s how you do it. I will go further to suggest you all join your support staff union, think Cupe would have a great deal less issues getting you your contract. And they’ve probably got a huge strike pay fund as well.
I will go further to suggest you all join your support staff union, think Cupe would have a great deal less issues getting you your contract. And they’ve probably got a huge strike pay fund as well
Thanks Grizzly1 but as a CUPE member we do not need another classification of workers added to our list. :-)
“See, teachers? That’s how you do it.”
Maybe the BCTF could learn a thing or two from them.
Any word on which districts settled?
Give more.. Lol.. Yeah because the support staff have the exact concerns a janitor does..lol..
Should be like our council and just look at the rest of the province and get the biggest increase.. That’s how it’s done teachers.. Vote yourselves a huge unwarranted raise ;)
Fancycamper:
Cupe probably doesn’t want the headaches either, LOL
You folks talk like CUPE and the BCTF and some kind of entities that people join. Got news for you! The workers are the union and the union are the workers. You could call the teachers union YMCA and the deal would be the same.
Give More:
“Any word on which districts settled?”
Are you a retired teacher?
Read the article very slowly, it says who settled. You’re older than me, right?
It’s good that some district signed. They shouldn’t get the pay that they lost as they where not working on teaching the children like they should have.
Shucks, I missed that. Must be my com pre hen sion slipping a bit.
Only CUPE is coming off 3.5% 2 year deal, while Teachers were legislated ZERO….remember net zero….meaning if you wanted a raise it had to come from existing budgets….teachers refused as they felt that mandate would take money directly from kids….BC Liberals had no problem taking money from kids as they did for CUPE (no doubt if they had the BC Liberals would be smearing Teachers for it in the current negotiation)…..So CUPE comes off 3.5% and now gets an additional 5.5% which adds p to 9% over 7 years….Teachers the BC Liberals are offering 6.5% if you go back like the previous example is over 8 years (2 year ZERO and 6.5 for 6 not including a year without a contract which was an additional ZERO)……But hey the BC Liberals were not done with their chequebook as they sweetened the pot with retroactive full wages for CUPE for any time lost during the dispute with teachers….in other words as long as teachers are on strike the BC Liberals will pay their FULL salary for CUPE to stay home…..Kinda like the BC Liberals saying our dispute is not with you and we need to show British Columbians it is not us that can’t deal, it’s that Militant BCTF…..see CUPE is happy…..the deal with CUPE shows the BC Liberals are willing to spend whatever it takes to convince the British Columbian citizen the problem is spoiled teachers and not the real goal of the BC Liberals to break the BCTF.
oh look, the teachers all took the long weekend off. I guess they walk the picket lines when it’s convenient only.
I am sure teachers have a bit more education than a janitor that’s probably why they don’t bend over and take fasbenders proposal hang in there teachers!
Taxed Out, you should know the teachers got a signing bonus with that zero, how many percent does that work out to? The signing bonus of 5,000 they want today for a teacher making 50,000 a year is 10% plus any other increases.
Oops hit post…before i could mention the 5,500 per teacher annually for 5 years for additional work plus the 5,500 per teacher for retroactive pay they are asking for today on top of 8 percent over 5 years. The BCTF that is.
Additional work?….even if they were offered money for additional work, wouldn’t getting paid for additional work apply to any workforce?….The rest of your post has nothing to do with what I posted on the BC Liberals offer?
That is what the BCTF is asking for on top of the 8 percent over 5 years so how can it not be relevant to your post?
And the signing bonus for the zero contract is not counted as a percentage raise? It costs money just as a percentage increase albeit it is not compounded annually which is why they did it
It isn’t relevant Slinky because my post was a comparison of what the BC Liberals gave CUPE and what the BC Liberals are offering Teachers…….No where in my post did I compare what CUPE was asking for in negotiation to what Teachers were asking for….You Slinky are comparing apples to oranges to justify your prejudice!
“I am sure teachers have a bit more education than a janitor that’s probably why they don’t bend over and take fasbenders proposal hang in there teachers!”
This is the exact pompous “we are more important than anyone else” attitude that sickens me about teachers.
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