Members of the Community Social Services Bargaining Association have ratified the agreement reached with the Community Social Services Employers’ Association under the government’s 2010 mandate.

This agreement covers approximately 14,000 employees, working for more than 200 contracted agencies, who deliver services to British Columbia’s most vulnerable citizens.

Government announced its intention to control spending on wages for public sector agreements that expired in 2010 and 2011
through a net-zero cost mandate for collective bargaining. To protect jobs and preserve services essential to British Columbians, government does not have funding for wage increases as collective agreements are renewed.

Quick Facts:

• B.C.’s public sector has approximately 307,000 unionized workers, who
  provide our province with vital services.
• To date, about two-thirds of those employees have successfully
  re-negotiated agreements under the current net-zero mandate.