Bargaining for your new agreement has begun!

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BC’s Community Social Services Workers

May 27, 2025

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

 

Bargaining your new Community Social Services Collective Agreement starts soon!

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Bulletin Bargaining your new Community Social Services April 14 2025

Bargaining your new Community Social Services Collective Agreement starts soon!

Greetings to all members in the community and social services,

We are gearing up to start negotiating your new Collective Agreement. Bargaining is set to begin mid-May, and right now, your Bargaining Committee is in preparation mode, busy creating the proposal package that reflects all unions’ identified priorities.

A collective agreement is a written contract that sets out the terms and conditions of your employment and includes elements such as wages, benefits, working hours, and grievance procedures.

In Community Social Services your Collective Agreement is the result of bargaining, a process where your Union, through the Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) and your Employer, represented by the Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA), negotiate a group Agreement.

As you may know, our current Collective Agreement expired on Monday, March 31st. We want to reassure you that the terms of our Agreement will stay in effect until a new one is negotiated and ratified. So, it remains business as usual for you and your coworkers.

In solidarity,

Your Community Social Services Bargaining Association

(CSSBA) Negotiating Committee

 

Additional Education and Training Funds Available for Community Social Services Employers and Employees

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CSSEA and the Community Social Services Bargaining Association of Unions (CSSBA) are
pleased to announce that the Community Social Services Labour Adjustment and Education
Fund (LAEF) has extended the submission period to December 31, 2025, for applications for
education and training funding. Details on the fund, eligibility criteria and application forms
can be found on the LAEF website.

If you were previously denied funding because your education or training did not begin before
March 31, 2025, we kindly ask that you either re-apply using the LAEF online submission form,
or send an email to LAEF@bcgeu.ca to have your application placed back in the queue.
What is the LAEF?

The Community Social Services Labour Adjustment and Education Fund is a joint initiative of
CSSEA and CSSBA. The purpose of the LAEF is to enhance the skills of frontline community
social services workers by providing relevant professional development. It also prioritizes and
offers additional support and retraining for workers impacted by layoffs, downsizing, or
restructuring so workers can continue to be employed in the community social services sector.

Who Can Apply for Funding?
The constituent unions of the CSSBA, CSSEA, employers, individuals or groups may apply for
funding. Education and training must be relevant to continuing work in the community social
services sector. All applications will be reviewed by the LAEF Joint Steering Committee based
on the eligibility criteria and funding amounts set out by CSSEA and CSSBA. For a full list of
eligibility criteria, please refer to the attached Eligibility and Funding Guidelines or at the
above website. Applications will be reviewed on a regular, ongoing basis.
How Much Funding is Available to Me?

The following chart illustrates the maximum amount of funding available to applicants for the
funding term April 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025. If an individual or group applies for and
receives a lesser amount than the maximum available, they may submit additional application(s)
in the future.

Type of Application Maximum Amount of Funding
Individual $3,000
Individual impacted by layoffs, downsizing or
restructuring

$5,000
Group $10,000
Group impacted by layoffs, downsizing or
restructuring

$15,000

For More Information
If you have further questions not answered on the LAEF website, please e-mail laef@bcgeu.ca

Vancouver Crucial by-election

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Hello CUPE Local 1936 members,
For those of you who are living in Vancouver, there is a crucial by-election happening on Saturday, April 5th.
This by-election provides us with an opportunity to elect progressive candidates to help balance the current ABC City Council headed by Mayor Sims.
The Vancouver District Labour Council and CUPE BC have endorsed Lucy Maloney, from One City as their candidate for Vancouver City Council.
If you live in Vancouver, please take the pledge below to go out and vote and make a difference by electing a progressive, committed and informed candidate to Vancouver City Council.
Below is a link to a Vote Pledge form that we’ve built for the by-election.  This could be sent out to your membership at any point so that they can join our outreach list as we get closer to Election Day on April 5th.
Thank you so much for doing your part to ensure we have a City Council that works for Social Service workers and Vancouver Citizens.
In solidarity,
Sheryl Burns
President, CUPE Local 1936
800 McBride Boulevard
New Westminster, BC
V3L 2B8
Cell: 778-231-4241
Office: 604-522-8445
Fax:604-777-0297
With gratitude, I respectfully acknowledge that I live and learn on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples– sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), Qayqayt,Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

2025 Amended By-laws for review

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Please find attached the Amended By-Laws for CUPE Local 1936 members to review. We will be voting to adopt them at our next membership meeting, April 16th, 2025 @ 6:30pm via zoom.  Please come to that General Membership Meeting so that you will be able to vote to adopt or if you have any questions.

As a union member and as this is your local it is important to have your input.

Local 1936 Bylaws Draft-Final-March 2025 (2)-2

Invite to the membership meeting belo

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Apr 16, 2025 06:30 PM Vancouver

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Xn8LExW6QkWFeMdw4JvkPg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.