June 2023 Report to Faculty from the VCCFA Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   Holidays I am hoping that many of you will soon be taking holidays. As a reminder to Department Heads, if you are in a department that does not have more than one department...

Report to the VCC Board of Governors, May 29th, 2023 Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   Recently our union went with a delegation to the Federation of Post-Secondary's AGM, held in Kam loops. I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of the...

Bargaining  We have been bargaining with the college since the fall and will be taking a break in May to accommodate holiday schedules. The break is also tactical, as we want to have the option to use our power by way of a strike vote if we need to. Job action or the...

Report to the VCC Board of Governors, March 29th, 2023 Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   International on the Rise The financial statements in our package project that 43% of our students will be International in the coming year, and that 73% of our tuition...

Report to the VCC Board of Governors, February 2023 Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   2023 Focus: VCC Sustainability It has been almost seven months since VCC, the SUVCC and the VCCFA made submissions to the BC Post-Secondary Funding review. All has been...

Looking back, Looking forward In preparing to write this message, I read over what I wrote last year at this time. Then, it was all about vaccine mandates (or not), vaccine passports, stresses about return to campus, and questions around who to notify if our students...