Community Social Services bargaining committee meets with employers’ group, tables proposals

The Union Bargaining Association for UFCW 1518 members employed as Community Social Service workers met with the employers’ group this week in Richmond.

The Union committee tabled a comprehensive 93-page package of proposals aimed at making gains and restoring your rights after years of cuts and concessions. The Union committee is seeking – among other things - better sick leave provisions and wage parity with the Community Health sector. The proposal package covers CSS workers in the Community Living Services and General Services sub-sectors. A separate package covering the Aboriginal Services sub-sector will be tabled later.

The government’s Community Social Services Employers' Assoication tabled its own concessionary package, 21-pages in length, that offered no monetary gains.

Community Social Services workers are the lowest paid workers in B.C.'s broader public sector. The Union Committee is working exceedingly hard on your behalf to change that. 

More bargaining dates are set for June 2010. The current agreement, which expired on March 31, 2010, remains in effect while a new collective agreement is being negotiated.

The Community Social Services Union Bargaining Association bargains on behalf of 15,000 unionized community-based social services workers in B.C., including UFCW 1518 Social Services Sector Members.