CSS: Bargaining for your new agreement has begun

Last week, your Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) Bargaining Committee kicked off negotiations for your new agreement. CSSBA met with your employers — the Community Social Services Employers Association (CSSEA) — to begin the hard work of bargaining.

This round of bargaining is aimed at reaching a new collective agreement for you and more than 23,000 other community social services workers that are working in every region of the province.

Our current collective agreement expired on March 31, 2025. While we are bargaining, the terms of the agreement stay in effect until a new one is negotiated. So, it remains business as usual for you and your coworkers. 

We are at the beginning of the process, and we have begun to share our respective language proposals with each other, while all proposals of a monetary nature will be exchanged later in the bargaining process.

CSSBA represents community social services from eight different unions that work together to negotiate collectively for an agreement that covers wages, working conditions and health and safety for all unionized workers in the sector.

For the past few months, your bargaining association has been hard at work reviewing proposals from workers like you and finalizing our bargaining priorities and negotiations package.

We look forward to bringing forward your proposals and representing you at the bargaining table and we will keep you updated throughout negotiations.

We want you to be in the loop! Please remind your coworkers to sign up to get updates by email and ensure that your contact information is current, so you can get regular updates during bargaining.

In solidarity,
Your Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) Negotiating Committee