Clock is Ticking on Negotiating Framework Deadline

Thursday, March 30, 2006 03:58 AM

Time is running out for public sector contract negotiators if they want to take advantage of the "Negotiating Framework" set out last fall by the Province.

Under the framework, the Province has set aside up to $6 billion dollars in wage increases and incentives to have contracts signed by midnight tomorrow night. Finance Minister Carole Taylor (shown at right) has made it clear, any dollars not spoken for by the deadline, will be used to pay down the provincial debt “I encourage all the parties to keep talking at the bargaining table – that’s where agreements will be found” says Taylor.

The province has reached 22 tentative agreements covering 117,804 employees across B.C.

UNBC has ratified it's contract with staff (450) and the College of New Caledonia has a tentative pact with it's 230 members of the PPWC local 29.
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Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 03:58 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: lunarcom on March 30 2006 8:03 AM

Actually UNBC Staff have not ratified the contract. UNBC Faculty Association that represents the instructors has. The support staff who run the place are still without a contract and the overall government sector dealing with Universities doesn't seem to want to settle for a fair agreement. Wage increases, benefits and concessions that other unions ( even the HEU ) are getting are not being offered to the University sector. UBC is facing wage freezes / roll backs for some lower wage groups. Another University has not been paying money into the employee's pension plan for the past year and now is telling the employees they have to make up the difference.

On a side note, the University up on the hill is in financial trouble. Student enrollment is down by about 300 students and therefore money that was budgetted and to be spent is now beyond our ability to pay it.

Posted by: duffer on March 30 2006 8:15 PM

It's a sure bet the teachers won't be signing because they think they are more important than anyone else in this province. I wonder why their N.D.P. friends didn't give them what they wanted either. Could be they want too much???