Picket lines are back up this week at UNBC.
Vice President of External Relations – Rob van Adrichem says no meetings are scheduled but stresses both sides have not broken-off.
A new compensation package was presented to the faculty association, still at 5.5% wage increase over five years, with new adjustments to how and when it would be delivered.
van Adrichem says the bulk of their work has been assessing the cost of their proposal and the proposal from the faculty association.
“Because the situation is very individual, it’s not about applying across-the-board increases, it’s precise circumstances for individual members of the faculty association, so that’s why some of this can take so long … or it can feel like it’s taking a long time,” he says.
van Adrichem says the university still intends to end this semester as planned.
“Students will be able to complete their course work , and those who are in their final year will graduate,” he says. “That. of course, is our number-one priority, to do whatever we can to make sure that can occur.”
Responding to the recent deal ratified at Royal Roads, which was also five and a half per-cent over five years, he says – “Some ways we’re different, some ways, we’re the same.”
“As public institution , we all have to operate within the same context, in terms of the government grant, in terms of the mandate we have from government around negotiations and bargaining,” he says.
(Photo of Monday’s picket line courtesy CUPE local 3799 Twitter)
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