Verbal Intervention Training and First Aid

The district is offering the following training for those planning to work during the closure week in March. Please feel free to sign up for one or both 🙂 DEADLINE for registration: Friday, March 7th, 2025

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Bargaining Update – February 5, 2025

Bargaining – What’s Happening Now?
Our collective agreement expires at the end of June and our local bargaining will begin once provincial bargaining is done. We anticipate that we will be at the table with the employer either late in this school year or early in the next and will be bargaining the terms of the collective agreement.

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Incidents and Injuries at Work

It’s important to fill out the 8.15.02 Workplace Violent Incident Report Form (1) any time there is an incident, whether it resulted in an injury or not. “Violence” means the attempted or actual exercise by a person, other than a worker, of any physical force so as to cause injury to a worker, and includes any threatening statement or behaviour which gives a worker reasonable cause to believe that he or she is at “risk of injury”.

If you are injured, report it to your supervisor and seek medical attention if needed. More information on workplace injuries at https://www.worksafebc.com/en/claims/report-workplace-injury-illness/how-workers-report-workplace-injury-illness

There are steps for refusing unsafe work at Refusal-of-Unsafe-Work_23-24

Always refer to the district website and WCB for up-to-date forms. If you have followed these steps, and have not received help from the employer, please reach out to the union.

Accessibility Committee – Volunteers Needed!

Have a say!
Kootenay Lake School District has formed an accessibility committee to comply with BC legislation. The role of the committee is to provide recommendations and advice to the Superintendent on identifying, preventing, and eliminating barriers to people with disabilities in programs, services, and facilities. This will include supporting the development of SD8’s 3-year accessibility plan, monitoring progress with accessibility goals and providing input into accessibility priorities.

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CUPE BC Telephone Town Hall with David Eby

Join CUPE BC President Karen Ranalletta and Premier David Eby for a special telephone town hall on Monday, September 9 at 6 p.m. This is an important opportunity for CUPE members to hear directly from the Premier and to ask questions about issues that matter to us, including public services, workers’ rights, and the future of our communities.

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