The Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA) has reached three tentative agreements with members of the Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA).

The tentative agreements are based on the Balanced Measures Mandate and include additional funding for low-wage redress. Since 2014, low-wage redress has been provided in the community social services sector to address unique challenges threatening critical service delivery.

CSSEA represents just under 200 member-agencies categorized into three sub-sectors: Community Living Services, General Services, and Indigenous Services, each with their own collective agreement. These three agreements cover roughly 35,000 unionized employees working at private, group and residential community living homes, supported employment programs, child development centres, adult day programs, mental-health centres, immigrant settlement programs, counselling for victims of sexual abuse, and crisis intervention programs in communities throughout B.C.

Details about the agreements will be available after the ratification process for the union members and the sector-based employers is complete.

Negotiations under the 2025 Balanced Measures Mandate support government’s key priorities to protect and strengthen critical services in B.C.’s public sector, to maintain labour stability in a complex round of bargaining and to support the Province’s efforts to find operational efficiencies that preserve front-line services.

Learn More:

• To learn more about public-sector bargaining in B.C., visit: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employers/public-sector-employers/public-sector-bargaining