First Nations Health Authority

Your bargaining team is pleased to announce that we reached a tentative collective agreement with the FNHA on July 12th. Our next steps are to assemble a ratification kit and then to organize ratification meetings - which we anticipate will be held within weeks. Members will have an opportunity to review the kit and to ask the bargaining team questions prior to a ratification vote.

We know it has been some time since bargaining commenced last October and first, we’d like to thank you for your support of the team and your continued vote of confidence. We can report we finally made some progress at our last session and some items have been resolved to the satisfaction of the Union bargaining team. Although we cannot yet provide the detailed language for your review and approval until a tentative agreement is reached; we can report after seven days of face to face meetings we have resolved the following:

The DCL 22000 Bargaining Team members: Heidi Campbell, Grace MacIver, and Brenda Isaac

Our PSAC bargaining team began negotiations with the First Nation Health Authority team this week. We have tabled our proposals to the Employer (see PDF below). We also had the chance to meet with members at the Alberni and Sinclair Centre worksites and are holding a conference call for other DCL 22000 members from other sites today at 5PM to provide a bargaining update. We will let you know as soon as we have confirmed the next set of bargaining dates with the Employer.

Musqueam Territory – Vancouver, British Columbia – Yesterday, representatives from the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA), Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) and Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) celebrated the ratification of their collective agreements after two years of negotiations. These agreements were reached on March 27, 2015 and May 28, 2015, respectively, and mark a historic milestone for the three parties as the first collective agreements of their kind in Canada.

Representatives from the First Nations Health Authority, PIPSC, and PSAC, including Bob Jackson, REVP for BC, and Grace Maciver, President of PSAC Local 22000 gathered today to sign our first collective agreement together.

PSAC’s website now helps members connect with their local union representative. Find your local union contact and your collective agreement By choosing their employer, their job classification and the closest city to where they live, PSAC member can get phone and web contact information for their component or local as well as a link to their collective agreement.  The system is aimed at getting PSAC members answers to their questions about their job faster.

PSAC is proud to announce that members of PSAC Local 22000 have ratified their first negotiated collective agreement with the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia.

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties the PSAC conference call information is not working. For the May 21, 2015 meeting, scheduled from 5:30 pm to 7 pm, please use the following conference call information:

The PSAC has begun the ratification process of the FNHA/DCL 22000 tentative agreement.  Members within Metro Vancouver should attend one of two meetings being held at SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1535, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver in order to cast a vote. Wednesday, May 20 - 12 noon – 1 PM Thursday, May 21 - 5:30 – 7:00 PM  Download a copy of the ratification kit here. (hard copies will also be available at the meetings)