UNBC back to contract talks soon
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PRINCE GEORGE – After a break over the summer, negotiators with UNBC and two of its unions will get back to the table this fall.The last contract for the Faculty Association expired on June 30th and both sides believe an agreement can be reached without issue. This is the Association’s second contract. The first was reached through binding arbitration following a two-week strike in March 2015. But that was then.
“What’s really changed this time is that we’re absolutely on the same page as the Administration,” says Stephen Rader with the Faculty Association. “President Weeks and the Administration’s Chief Negotiator, Barb Daigle, have been saying for at least two years now that biggest risk to UNBC in the future is that our salaries have fallen so far behind those at other universities that we won’t be able to compete for the same calibre of people that we have now.”
In March of this year, UNBC offered retirement packages to about 20 faculty who had been with the university wince it opened its doors more than 20 years ago.
This will be the Faculty Association’s second contract, while the Teaching Assistants at UNBC are looking for their first.
