Today is the second day of the UNBC strike. Key issues in this dispute still remain work conditions along with salaries.
According to UNBC, with the proposed negotiated savings, tenured and tenure-track faculty members could see an average compensation increase of approximately 15 per cent over three years.
Increases could be as much as 28 per cent for a full professor, 22 per cent for an associate professor, and 18 per cent for an assistant professor. Salary adjustments will vary.
The government and provincial public sector employers spend about $30.4 billion on compensation which is equivalent to more than half of the Province’s budget. The government manages these costs by setting the fiscal parameters for negotiations through a mandate.
In this round of bargaining, the Sustainable Services Negotiating Mandate defines what employers are able to negotiate, as well as what government will ultimately transfer to the University to pay the equivalent of the 2 per cent increase each year in faculty salaries.
