The two-year agreements with staff in the Administrative/Clerical Division and the Maintenance/Service Division provide for modest wage increases of two per cent effective April 1, 2012, and two per cent on April 1, 2013, which are being funded from savings found within BC Housing's existing administrative budgets, as required under the 2012 Cooperative Gains Mandate.
Both staffing groups provide a variety of administrative services and work in direct property management positions that are responsible for the development, management and administration of subsidized housing and the administration of the Homeowner Protection Branch.
More than half of the people working in B.C.'s public sector now have tentative or ratified agreements settled under the 2012 Cooperative Gains Mandate. This represents about one-third of all agreements.
Funding for this agreement will not affect the delivery of housing services and programs. In addition, funding to partner organizations providing housing and support services will not change as a result of this agreement. The B.C. government has been clear that there is no new money to fund wage increases and there is no desire to download these costs onto families or future generations.
The Cooperative Gains Mandate provides public-sector employers with the ability to negotiate modest wage increases funded from savings within existing budgets, not adding costs to taxpayers and ratepayers, and not sacrificing services.
Settlements under the 2012 mandate are expected to be unique between sectors and between employers in some sectors.
Updated bargaining information is available at: http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/psec/bargaining/index.htm
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