The B.C. Public School Employers' Association (BCPSEA) board this week ratified a two-year collective agreement with unionized public school support staff in 11 B.C. school districts, including the one covering the Sea to Sky Corridor.
Officials with the BCPSEA, the collective bargaining agent for B.C.'s 60 public school boards, announced that the board had ratified the agreements with the 11 school boards in a statement issued on Monday (Feb. 20). BCPSEA and union representatives had reached the agreements in December, officials said.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees' Local 779 represents approximately 150 public school support workers including teachers' assistants, bus drivers and janitors in the Sea to Sky School District, which operates schools in Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and Devine.
The settlements with a total of 2,800 workers in 11 districts came in under the government's 2010 "net-zero" mandate, Ministry of Education officials said.
"While there are outstanding agreements still being negotiated with some unions under the 2010 mandate, virtually all of B.C.'s public sector has now settled for two years of net-zero," officials said.
