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International Solidarity Fund

The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) is accepting requests to access funding from the 2025 International Solidarity Fund (ISF) until Monday, March 10, 2025. You may access the ISF Application Form and other ISF information on the FPSE website. The ISF is designed to support long-term, ongoing projects that build partnerships between our Federation and people in the disadvantaged world. Primarily, the fund supports solidarity partnerships as distinct from traditional charity efforts, helping community groups and organizations who are organizing themselves to advance social justice or to defend their basic human rights. The intent is also to build enduring and stable relationships, based on the conviction that solidarity is a two-way street: people organizing in the disadvantaged world or here at home can teach and inspire us in our own work for social justice. To be eligible for funding, projects must be housed in or originate from an FPSE local,…

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Time to start thinking about Scheduled Development!

2025-26 Intents and Proposals will be due February 1! All continuing, probationary, indefinite term, and post-retirement Faculty Members, except International Education Project Officers, Senior Analysts, and Program Developers in Professional Studies and Industry Training, are entitled to two months (or the equivalent) free of regular duties for approved scheduled development activities. Part-time Faculty Members are entitled to two months at their contract percentage. Haven’t decided what yours will be yet? Maybe you’d be interested in working with C4 (Camosun College Climate Coalition) on projects such as a new climate action and sustainability plan, or developing a climate action credential? Contact…

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2024 Seniority List

The 2024 Seniority List is finally published on our website, but wait… What is Seniority? Seniority is a system used in workplaces and organizations to rank employees based on their length of service. Only Continuing faculty members earn seniority. Term faculty members accumulate “service in the bargaining unit,” which is converted to seniority when Term faculty members regularize. Seniority is often used as an objective measure to make employment-related decisions such as pay increases (steps), layoffs, and access to certain benefits. In times of layoffs, seniority becomes a critical safeguard. It determines the order in which employees are retained or…

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Haven’t decided what to do with your LWSA?

Only 30% of those eligible for the Lifestyle and Wellness Spending Account have claimed their benefit. Submitted by Seb Bonet Last month we got the reminder that thanks to our latest collective agreement we can claim up to $375 for lifestyle and wellness through our union. The reminder came in the lead-up to Truth and Reconciliation Day and got me to thinking about the forever lesson from Indigenous friends that wellness begins from the land. Last month also marked the return of land defense camps on Gitanyow and Gitxsan territories as the PRGT pipeline began construction. As I type, Indigenous…

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