Bargaining
CUPE BC and Locals – Tentative Agreement Reached
July 23, 2025
To: All MoveUP members at CUPE BC and Locals
Your bargaining committee is pleased to announce that we have finalized negotiating a tentative collective agreement with your employer, CUPE BC and Locals. You can view the MOA on our website.
Some highlights of the tentative agreement include:
- 2 year agreement
- Wages: 1.5% for 1st year and 2% for 2nd year
- Wellness Spending Account $650/yearly
- 1 paid cultural leave day
- Update to union trainee leave
- Increase to bereavement leave for friend or family member
- Extended health benefits increases as follows:
- Acupuncture coverage increase to $1000/year
- Chiropractor coverage increase to $1000/year
- Expand coverage of psychology entitlement to increase overage to $2000/year
- Vision care coverage increase to $1000/2 year
- Transit subsidy to a maximum of $150/per month
- Ban on generative AI usage
Your bargaining committee is recommending ratification of the tentative collective agreement.
We will be holding a meeting in order to review the tentative agreement with you. Please make every effort to attend.
Voting information will be sent in a separate bulletin on a later date.
Meeting details are below:
Date: Monday July 28, 2025
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Via: Zoom (A link will be sent to your home email)
In solidarity,
Alina Teymory, Union Representative
Darci Schmid, Bargaining Committee Member
Erica Rogers, Bargaining Committee Member
Chika Buston, Bargaining Committee Member
Nathan Beausoleil, Senior Union Representative
