Teacher Collective Bargaining 2025

The Provincial Collective Agreement between BCPSEA and the BCTF expires on June 30, 2025. Bargaining for a renewed Provincial Collective Agreement for teachers commenced in March 2025.

For further information about 2025 collective bargaining in the K-12 public education sector please see Collective Bargaining 2025 – Backgrounder – Process and Timeline.

Bargaining Updates

May 30, 2025

Local teacher bargaining 

Local teacher tables have closed and ratification processes are ongoing. Thus far, 32 local matters agreements have been fully ratified.

Provincial teacher bargaining 

BCPSEA and the BCTF have had 11 bargaining sessions so far. Three more blocks of dates in June are scheduled, up until June 27, 2025.

Bargaining has been collegial and respectful with meaningful discussions happening at the table.

April 29, 2025

BCPSEA and the BCTF met for our fifth and sixth bargaining sessions on April 7 and 8, 2025. At these meetings, the remainder of both parties’ opening proposals were tabled.

April 4, 2025

On March 13, 2025, BCPSEA and the BCTF reached a bargaining protocol agreement, which was then signed on April 1, 2025.

The parties met again on April 1-3, 2025, where both parties began tabling their non-monetary opening proposals.

March 12, 2025

The BCPSEA provincial bargaining table team for teacher bargaining is as follows:

  • Justin Rempel – Lead Negotiator
  • Alison Jones – 2nd Negotiator
  • Tara Sweet – BCPSEA bargaining team member
  • Diana Lozano – BCPSEA bargaining team notetaker
  • Dawn Lang – BCPSEA Director trustee representative
  • Ken Dawson – Public Sector Employers’ Council Secretariat representative
  • Linda Beddouche – Ministry of Education and Child Care representative
  • Shawn Johnston (Nanaimo-Ladysmith) / Brian Norris (Surrey) – Sr. HR representatives
  • Ron Amos (Qualicum) / Bruce Tisdale (Revelstoke) – Secretary Treasurer representatives
  • Stephen Petrucci (Peace River North) / Mike McDiarmid (Bulkley Valley) / Adam Baumann (North Vancouver) – Superintendent representatives

The dates for provincial teacher bargaining are as follows:

  • March 13
  • April 1 – 3
  • April 7 – 8
  • April 30 – May 2
  • May 5 – 6
  • June 3 – 5
  • June 16 – 17
  • June 25 – 27