Latest FPSE News & President's Comments

BC Jobs Plan failing northern communities: Community college layoffs reflect lack of commitment to northern economy

Angela — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:08:10 -0500

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 representing post secondary workers said today.

Make Post-Secondary Education More Affordable: FPSE Puts Its Support behind National Day of Action by Students

Angela — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:29:52 -0500

"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 in BC have skyrocketed over the last decade and undermined what should be a more accessible and affordable public good; post-secondary education," Oliver added.

Post-Secondary Education: It's worth the investment

Angela — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500

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. For post-secondary educators that statement is more than just common sense; it is a fact that we see play out every day in our classrooms, our lecture halls, our research labs and our trades training centres. We see the transformation that happens to our students as they acquire new skills and expand the boundaries of their current knowledge and insights.

Post-secondary instructors reach 2010 common table settlement

Gisele — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:45:09 -0500

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, said the leaders of the two major unions in post-secondary education collective bargaining.

December 6th: Wear white

Gisele — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:37:34 -0500

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 the shooter's rampage.

Latest fiscal update shows BC Liberals’ economic policies in serious disarray

Gisele — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:55:05 -0500

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 about it, the obvious math seems strangely mysterious to the Minister. He searches far and wide to try and explain that it wasn't his government's policies that have led to the fiscal problems that he outlined in late November, but rather "other factors" somehow beyond his control.

Proposed Post-Secondary Legislation Will Strip Faculty Rights say Educators

Angela — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:43:43 -0400

Proposed Amendments Would Disallow Faculty Reps
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Hands Up for Fair Employment

Angela — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:24:45 -0400

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 local in our Federation takes on at the bargaining table and throughout the term of their collective agreements: the struggle to achieve fair and secure employment for every member.
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Discrimination case reminds us all how much more needs to be done

Gisele — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:28:09 -0400
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 discrimination to exist. The labour movement has played a major role in changing those conditions by using the power of the bargaining table and collective agreements to ensure that contract rights trump discriminatory practice in the workplace.
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Polling Data Shows Growing Gap between Voters and Government on Post-Secondary Education

Angela — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:24:18 -0400

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 troubling outcome for a government that wants to rebuild its approval ratings with voters. Adding to the Premier's troubles was the fact that her plan to call an early Fall election looked increasingly ill-advised. More recently, an Ipsos Reid poll, commissioned by FPSE, showed a majority of those surveyed gave the government a failing grade on their handling of post-secondary education in BC.
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Latest FPSE News & President's Comments

BC Jobs Plan failing northern communities: Community college layoffs reflect lack of commitment to northern economy

Make Post-Secondary Education More Affordable: FPSE Puts Its Support behind National Day of Action by Students

Post-Secondary Education: It's worth the investment

Post-secondary instructors reach 2010 common table settlement

December 6th: Wear white

Latest fiscal update shows BC Liberals’ economic policies in serious disarray

Proposed Post-Secondary Legislation Will Strip Faculty Rights say Educators

Proposed Amendments Would Disallow Faculty Repsread more

Hands Up for Fair Employment

Discrimination case reminds us all how much more needs to be done

Polling Data Shows Growing Gap between Voters and Government on Post-Secondary Education

Proposed Amendments Would Disallow Faculty Reps
read more