A Word From Our Executive Director

To our members,

It is with gratitude and great excitement that I am writing to you at the beginning of a new RDBC Collective Agreement. After a long and gruelling process listening to your feedback, developing policy proposals, and negotiating with the employer alongside a star-studded team of RDBC staff and residents, we were able to strike a new CA that secured increases in compensation and call, expanded benefits coverage, introduced new stipends to reduce the costs of residency, expanded support for Indigenous residents, and increased language clarity in the agreement.

Your resounding endorsement of the new CA is not only a vote of confidence in our ability to realize our strategic goals, but also a reminder that our work to represent and advance the interests of residents will be ever continuing. Our staff has already begun to collect information to enforce the new policies introduced in this round of the Collective Agreement and brainstorm ideas for consideration at the next round of Collective Bargaining. It is our hope that our members will continue to engage with us on all matters to do with their work and contract, and keep us informed about the topics closest to their interests and priorities.

As the ink dries on the final pages of the new Collective Agreement, we are looking forward to meeting more of you face-to-face (or zoom-to-zoom, as the case may be) in the upcoming months. Plans have already been made for virtual Collective Agreement town halls for surgery programs and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in the month of March, and we are anticipating more trips to sites such as Prince George and hospitals in the Interior. The team at RDBC is always available to meet with you to discuss anything in the Collective Agreement, or serve as a sounding board for the many ups and downs of resident life!

Sincerely,

Lona Cunningham Executive Director