CBA Bargaining Update: January Dates

New bargaining dates are set, and we’re heading back to the table with momentum, unity, and a strong strike mandate behind us.

We are scheduled to meet with the employer next on January 19 - 23, 2026, with additional dates booked for February 2 - 6 and February 17 - 20.

With a powerful strike vote in hand, your bargaining committee is returning to negotiations focused on securing meaningful movement in this first week back at the table. No matter what community-based service you work in, our shared goal remains clear: reaching a fair agreement that delivers the stability, respect and fairness CBA workers deserve.

We will continue to push for improvements in four key areas:

• Fair funding for our benefits. Just like the Facilities Bargaining Association (the agreement that covers workers at hospitals and other large health facilities), our benefit trust deserves full funding retroactive to 2021. 
   
• Fair access to overtime. We want to see the expansion of overtime by seniority to ensure overtime opportunities are allocated fairly, curtailing assignments offered by convenience or through personal relationships. 
   
• Protection against ‘gig work’ scheduling. CHWs deserve the same security of fixed shifts and breaks that other health care workers have had for decades. We need protections to ensure employers cannot return to the precarious scheduling practices CHWs endured for 30 years. 
   
• Equal pay for equal work. Wages, shift premiums, vacation, and other monetary entitlements must be brought up to the same level as other HEABC health care workers doing the same work, ensuring fairness and equity across the sector. Now that thousands more supportive housing workers have joined the CBA, this bargaining position will also support bringing greater stability to BC's housing services and shelters, where workers have been under-compensated for far too long. 
   

Please watch for our next update following the January 19 - 23 bargaining dates.