College Ratifies Deal with Faculty

Friday, January 27, 2012 01:46 PM

Prince George, B.C.- There are just two months left before the contract is set to expire, but, CNC’s Board of Governors has ratified a new collective agreement with its Faculty Association.

“We are delighted to have worked out an agreement with our Faculty Association and hope to have official government approval in the near future,” said CNC President John Bowman.

The agreement will now go to the provincial government for final approval.

“The faculty are pleased to have an agreement in place,” said David Rourke, President of CNC’s Faculty Association. “In this round, negotiations were protracted and often challenging due to the government's net-zero mandate for post-secondary education workers. I want to thank our local and provincial bargaining teams for the long hours they have worked to reach this agreement.”

The new agreement is within the provincial government’s net-zero mandate and looks very much like the old agreement, with only minor housekeeping changes and no wage increases.

The collective agreement is valid until March 31, 2012.

“No bargaining on the next agreement is planned at this time,” said Sandra Rossi, CNC’s Director of Human Resources. “We expect that to occur sometime after this agreement concludes on March 31.”

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Comments

Posted by: seamutt on January 27 2012 8:19 PM

So where are all the teacher bashers?

Posted by: Bond on January 27 2012 8:49 PM

net zero is a BC Librals decission, not an economic one

Posted by: NoWay on January 27 2012 10:03 PM

LOL it's settled for 2 months? Good job. Back to the bargaining table.
I think faculty is after the same % pay increase as City Council gave themselves.

Posted by: gus on January 27 2012 10:12 PM

Kind of crazy, these governments, aren't they?

The City's budget is for the calendar year, running from Jan. 1 to Dec 31. Jet the budget does not get discussed in final detail till February and approved until the end of February.

So the CNC Faculty agreement is to the end of March .... 2012, not 2013 ....

So the classes scheduled for this year are actually going to be run next year? I mean, does this stuff make any sense. I thought we lived in Canada, not some southern fly by night country with magnana the operative word.

Posted by: JohnnyBelt on January 28 2012 10:56 AM

"net zero is a BC Librals decission, not an economic one"

Considering the latest demand from the teachers will cost BC taxpayers in the neighborhood of $1 Billion+, I would say economics plays a bit of a role.