Provincial Collective Agreement Ratified

CSSBA Members Vote 93.1 % in Favour of Ratifying Their New Collective Agreement.

CUPE had a 95.3% in CL and a 90.5% in GS , YES vote.

CUPE Local 1936 would like to thank you for taking the time to vote.

Bargaining gains achieved in 2026 

  • 3%/year for four years
  • Shift premiums, beginning 2028
  • Renewed funding for the targeted wage adjustments that supportive housing workers won in 2024, so that it is fixed and ongoing for the life of the agreement*
  • Health and Welfare benefits improvements
  • Mileage rates increase to 65 cents
  • Regular employee retention incentive of $1,100 per FTE as of January 2027, payable April 2027
  • Support for gender affirming care
  • Wage adjustments for Indigenous Services members
  • Improved health and safety language, including new reference to workload-related health and safety concerns

 

Membership meeting zoom link , May 13th, 2026

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 13, 2026 06:30 PM Vancouver

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Nbm-BQdIQaaD0b38zzQNtg

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

CSSBA : Important Information Session for Tentative Agreement for Provincial Funded Agencies

Tentative Agreement Informations Sessions

Tuesday, May 5, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82069990603?pwd=zeYSUfaCI2Uw591bPOQEws9On6HSLa.1

Meeting ID: 820 6999 0603 Passcode: 363678

 

Tuesday, May 5, 6:00 PM – 9:00PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83722517598?pwd=Niwg7S0FOiGQCSboxL5xrVZyHBrBj3.1

Meeting ID: 837 2251 7598 Passcode: 143680

 

Thursday, May 7, 6:00 PM – 9:00PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82726820608?pwd=q6BF6b8MQafCrOozVJrbHJGz3ZgSzF.1

Meeting ID: 827 2682 0608 Passcode: 889920

 

Friday May 8, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83511188282?pwd=BUnEqkQPjVvAuKjObX7Rbimaa30rpr.1

Meeting ID: 835 1118 8282 Passcode: 658496

 

Indigenous Services Agreement Information Session

Tuesday, May 12, 12:00 PM (Noon)

This session will be conducted with the BCGEU. A link will be sent by BCGEU.

 

TENTATIVE AGREEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Members in community social services know too well the challenges facing our province,

with rising housing and grocery costs and increasing pressure on our social support

networks. We knew that this round of bargaining was coming at a critical time for all of you,

and we asked you to help shape our key priorities for bargaining.

You told your bargaining committee that meaningful wage and health benefit

improvements, including for increased mental health coverage and gender affirming care,

as well as new shift premiums, are among your top bargaining issues for this round. With

this information, we prepared to negotiate three agreements under the CSSBA umbrella:

Community Living Services, General Services and Indigenous Services.

We kicked off negotiations with your employers in May 2025 and after months of hard

work, we reached a tentative agreement on April 23rd, 2026. We were committed to

bargaining a new agreement that would reflect your priorities and ensure that you are

supported in your work to provide quality care in your community.

We will be holding a series of virtual information sessions on the tentative agreement over

the next week. You can find dates, times and Zoom links on the last page of this bulletin.

We made some real gains in this round of negotiations, and we are proud to recommend

for you to vote ‘yes’ to ratify your new collective agreement.

 

In solidarity,

Your CUPE Representatives to the CSSBA Bargaining Committee

Sheryl Burns CUPE 1936

Lee-Ann Lalli CUPE 1936

Valeria Mancilla CUPE 1936

Kate Pirillo CUPE 1936

Bob Crozier CUPE 523

Laura House CUPE 3999

 

Tentative Agreement Highlights

All members in Community Living Services, General Services and Indigenous Services will

receive a general wage increase of 3% every year, retroactive to April 1st, 2025.

In addition to this wage gain, here are some highlights of other gains and improvements:

• Mileage rate increased to 65¢/km effective two months post-ratification

• Psychologist/counsellor coverage increased to $1,500 effective October 1st, 2026

• Vision care glasses/lenses/laser increased to $500 effective October 1st, 2026

• Elimination of the dual coverage restriction for extended health benefits and for

dental benefits effective April 1st, 2028

• Eliminate Step 1 of the JJEP wage grid effective six months post-ratification

• Health sector comparability wage increases effective April 2028

• Shift premiums tailored to sector, effective September, 2028

• Retention incentive of $1,100 per regular FTE as of January 2027, based on hours

worked in 2026, payable April 2027

• Gender-affirming care support through a dedicated fund

• Improved health and safety language including workload-related concerns

 

Indigenous Services Members

Members that work in Indigenous Services will receive all main table agreement items.

In addition, there are gains that are specific to this sub-sector:

• Targeted wage adjustments for existing delegated jobs

• Implementation of new Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan resulting in wage

increases for the majority of existing non-delegated jobs

• Increase to meal allowances effective July 1st, 2026

• Renewal of Retention Incentive Payments

• New Indigenous Services Education Fund

• New Indigenous Dispute Resolution Process to resolve grievances and complaints

• New agreement for Indigenous Services employers to voluntarily participate in the

Public Service Pension Plan

 

 

We have reached a tentative agreement!

April 24, 2026

After 75 days of negotiations, and 91 direct meetings, your bargaining committee is pleased to
announce we reached a tentative agreement with the Community Social Services Employers’
Association (CSSEA) on Thursday, April 23rd.
This tentative agreement represents the hard work and solidarity between workers across nine
unions, which strengthened our hand at the table.
We made progress on the priorities you identified for the Community Living, General Services
and Indigenous Services sub-sectors, and we look forward to sharing the details of these wins with
you.
You will be receiving a comprehensive report within the next week, highlighting all the
proposed changes in detail. You will also be getting more information on how and when we
will vote on ratification.
It’s incredibly important that we have your correct contact information. If you know a co-worker
or a former coworker who isn’t receiving these emails, please forward this message and
encourage them to update their contact information with their local. We want to ensure members
get all the details about our tentative agreement and the ratification vote process.

In solidarity,
Your CUPE representatives to the CSSBA Bargaining Committee

Help bring back lifeguards to Vancouver beaches

I’m reaching out to ask for your help in pushing back on a decision that puts public safety at risk on Vancouver’s beaches.

Earlier this month, a decision was made to eliminate lifeguards at half of Vancouver’s beaches, a direct result of the City of Vancouver’s zero percent budget increase. This decision cuts frontline public services and removes trained CUPE 1004 members from roles that are critical to keeping people safe.

Lifeguards are trained public safety professionals who prevent emergencies before they happen and respond when they do. Removing them from busy public beaches increases risk for everyone who uses these shared spaces.

In response, CUPE 1004 has launched a petition calling on Mayor Ken Sim and Vancouver City Council to provide the funding needed to restore lifeguard services.

How can you help?

If you have members who work or live in Metro Vancouver, we’re asking you to share this petition and encourage members to add their names. You’re welcome to copy and paste the template message below to make sharing easy.

Your support will help build the pressure needed to reverse this decision and ensure Vancouver’s beaches remain safe for everyone.

In solidarity,

Karen Ranalletta
President, CUPE BC

Sign the Petition to Support Local Trades Jobs on Public Infrastructure Projects

Vancouver & District Labour Council

-Circulated on behalf of BC Building Trades-

Together workers fought to secure Community Benefit and Project Labour Agreements on major public projects like the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge (Pattullo Bridge replacement), the Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project and the Surrey-Langley Skytrain.

These agreements ensure British Columbians build BC’s public infrastructure—while expanding apprenticeships, ensuring safe working conditions and paying good, family-sustaining wages.

Yet without warning or consultation with the workers making their living on these projects, the BC Conservatives introduced a law to ban these agreements. Their bill would tie the government’s hands and put local jobs with family-sustaining wages at risk.

Show your support for skilled trades workers and good-paying local jobs by signing the BC Building Trades’ petition and tell the BC Conservatives to withdraw their bill:

https://protectbcjobs.ca/#petition

The BC Conservatives want to take us back to a time when the Canada Line project was built using temporary foreign labour, paying some workers less than $4 an hour.

BC Building Trades unions are demanding that BC Conservatives stop their attack on good-paying, local trades jobs and withdraw their legislation to ban Community Benefits and Project Labour Agreements.

Sign the petition if you agree: https://protectbcjobs.ca/#petition

Once you’ve signed the petition, please share it to your social media and ask your friends and family to sign too.

CBA members ratify new collective agreement

March 20, 202

Community Bargaining Association (CBA) members have voted by more than 91% to

ratify a new collective agreement with the Health Employers Association of British

Columbia (HEABC).

This is a strong result and a major win for community health workers across B.C.

The four-year, inflation-fighting agreement delivers substantial gains in the areas

members identified as priorities, including annual wage increases of 3% per year and

low wage redress funding that will mean most members will earn about 13%

more by the end of the agreement than they do today.

The agreement is retroactive to April 1, 2025, and is in effect until March 31, 2029.

Now that members have ratified the agreement, the next step is ratification

by HEABC employers, which is expected to take place at the beginning of April. After

that, the constituent unions of the CBA will begin work to implementation.

Please note the employer controls the timing of retroactive pay, but our union

will advocate for it to be paid out as quickly as possible.

This agreement was won through solidarity. It was made possible by the strength

members showed throughout bargaining, by a powerful strike vote, and by the

determination of community health workers to stand together and fight for

improvements. Because members stayed united and engaged, this round of

bargaining delivered real progress on the priorities that mattered most.

In solidarity,

Your CUPE representatives to the CBA bargaining committee

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