VICTORIA – Nine more school districts and more than 2,700 support
staff workers have recently ratified new agreements under the B.C.
government’s 2014 Economic Stability Mandate.

The nine school districts are:

* SD 10 (Arrow Lake) – 70 support staff workers (CUPE Local 2450)
* SD 22 (Vernon) – 503 support staff workers (CUPE Local 5523)
* SD 40 (New Westminster) – 449 support staff workers (CUPE Local
409)
* SD 50 (Haida Gwaii) – 115 support staff workers (CUPE Local 2020)
* SD 59 (Peace River South) – 89 support staff workers (CUPE Local
4992)
* SD 63 (Saanich) – 553 support staff workers (CUPE Local 441)
* SD 64 (Gulf Islands) – 182 support staff workers (CUPE Local 788)
* SD 75 (Mission) – 414 support staff workers (CUPE Local 593)
* SD 79 (Cowichan Valley) – 414 support staff workers (CUPE Local
5101)

To date almost 12,500 support staff workers in 30 school districts
have fully ratified agreements in place. This represents
approximately 36% of the total support staff workers in B.C. school
districts. The remaining districts are working to ratify agreements
by November.