CSSBA follows up on policy grievance for delays in wage increases
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The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) will be meeting with the Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA) on June 22 to try to resolve the policy grievance it filed last month on the significant delays in paying wage …
Last updated: Jun 9, 2023
Advancing your gains
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Your bargaining committee spent seven months in negotiations to secure the groundbreaking compensation, benefits and other workplace improvements in the 2022-2025 Facilities collective agreement. But this was just the first step in the union’s ongoing …
Last updated: May 4, 2023
CSSBA files policy grievance for delays in wage increases
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The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) is filing a sector-wide policy grievance upon learning that many members have still not been paid the negotiated retroactive low wage redress and general wage increases. The wage increases and …
Last updated: May 1, 2023
Moving your career forward
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As part of ongoing work to address recruitment and retention challenges in health care, your bargaining committee renewed or negotiated new provisions in the 2022-2025 Facilities Subsector collective agreement to better support existing workers, create …
Last updated: Apr 28, 2023
Improving work-life balance
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Your bargaining committee secured new measures in the 2022-2025 Facilities collective agreement as part of improving work-life balance. From giving members input into their schedules and reducing the number of six-day rotations, to enhanced portability …
Last updated: Apr 12, 2023
FBA general wages to rise by 6.75 per cent on April 1
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[Updated March 31, 2023] Based on the change in the annualized average of B.C.’s cost-of-living between March 2022 and February 2023, the full inflationary adjustment negotiated in the renewed Facilities Bargaining Association’s (FBA) contract will be …
Last updated: Apr 12, 2023
Tackling the workload crisis
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Securing measures to reduce and respond to crushing workloads, as well as advance solutions to ease pressures on health care workers was a priority for your bargaining committee when negotiating the 2022-2025 Facilities collective agreement. Here’s the …
Last updated: Apr 3, 2023
Gains for vacation, special and other leaves
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Your bargaining committee negotiated for a suite of improvements to work leaves in the 2022-2025 Facilities collective agreement. Landmark changes to vacation, compassionate, special leave, sexual and domestic violence leave and other leaves will expand …
Last updated: Mar 24, 2023
General wage increase update for community social services workers
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More than 19,000 workers in the nine-union Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) – including about 1,500 HEU members – are currently voting on the terms of a new collective agreement that would be in effect from April 1, 2022 to March …
Last updated: Mar 24, 2023
Community health workers set for wage increase on April 1
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More than 21,000 workers in the eight-union Community Bargaining Association (CBA) – including about 2,300 HEU members – will receive a 6.75 per cent wage increase beginning April 1. New recently released inflation figures confirm that the maximum wage …
Last updated: Mar 22, 2023