Contract negotiations

Since our last update in October, your bargaining committee has continued to work hard at the negotiations table. The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) has met with your employers over the past several weeks and have shifted into negotiations on monetary issues. Your committee has already tabled their monetary proposals, and we have now received the employers’ monetary proposals...

Your HSPBA bargaining committee has spent the past nine months working to negotiate a fair new collective agreement for health science professionals in BC. The big issue right now for health science professionals is not simply wages; we have been offered the same 3% per year over 4 years as other unionized public sector workers in BC. However, the employer...

Your bargaining committee and the HSA Board of Directors have determined that an official strike vote will be taken December 4 - 17. All members belonging to the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association will be eligible to participate in the vote, which will be held online. The decision to hold an official strike vote comes after weeks of in-person and...

The results are in: 92.33% of members who cast a ballot in the CBA strike vote said YES to authorize strike action, if necessary, to achieve meaningful improvements to our collective agreement. Your strong mandate sends a clear message to our employer: we are united, serious, and ready to secure the respect and fairness we deserve. In the coming weeks...

As you may know, the 2022-2025 Nurses Bargaining Association (NBA) contract expired on March 31, 2025 and your next collective agreement is currently being negotiated by the provincial bargaining committee. Protecting your health care benefits, along with wages and working conditions, are among the top priorities in this round of bargaining. The current NBA benefits package is one of the...

Tuesday noon is new deadline to share your thoughts about strike vote First, we are very sorry about all the email going out right now. There’s a lot going on! And what is going on is very important. Negotiations for your next contract are not going well – the employer is refusing to offer what other unions are receiving, and...

This notice is for HSA members who work in the Community Health sector who are part of the Community Bargaining Association. On October 3, your CBA Bargaining Committee declared that negotiations had reached impasse with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) and the provincial government. Now, your HSA Board of Directors are recommending that HSA members, alongside all the...

Members urged to share thoughts on strike vote, attend site meetings around BC After a further week of talks, your bargaining committee remains very disappointed with the lack of progress being made in negotiations. Eight months into the process, the employer has done little to address key priorities for health science professionals struggling with workload, shortages, and waitlists, and has...

Your Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) committee continues to work hard at the table to deliver renewed collective agreements that reflect your priorities. We have met with your employers, the Community Social Services Employers' Association (CSSEA), for 50 sessions since the kickoff of bargaining. Negotiations continue to be productive, however, we know that we have a lot of difficult...

The employer has responded to your bargaining committee’s proposal for a reasonable pay increase. Their initial offer is disappointing. Members have identified a pay increase, concrete action on shortages, workload, classification improvements, and cost of living as the most important issues in this round of negotiations. These were the leading concerns in more than 1300 bargaining proposals submitted by members...