CANADA, June 19 - The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has reached a tentative agreement with members of the BCIT Faculty & Staff Association (BCIT FSA) under the Province’s Shared Recovery Mandate.

The tentative agreement covers approximately 3,000 people, such as technology instructors, specialized faculty, technical staff, part-time studies faculty, assistant instructors, academic support staff, researchers, curriculum development professionals, librarians, program advisers, and counsellors.

Negotiations under the Shared Recovery Mandate support government’s priorities to improve public services and the health-care system, while supporting the province’s continued economic recovery.

Details about the agreement will be available after the ratification process for the BCIT FSA members and BCIT is complete.

More than 500,000 people work throughout the provincial public sector in the core public service, at Crown corporations, in health, community social services, kindergarten-to-Grade 12 public education, and at post-secondary institutions and research universities.

Of those people, approximately 393,000 are unionized employees paid under collective agreements or professionals paid through negotiated compensation agreements.

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To learn about public-sector bargaining in B.C., visit: https://www.gov.bc.ca/psecbargaining