Delegates Debate Resolutions
Delegates engaged in productive and spirited discussion on the third and final day of Convention 2025 as they debated eight important resolutions, voting in favour of two while rejecting six.
Delegates voted in favour of a resolution to increase the number of funded seats for the union’s annual human rights and equity (HRE) conference from 180 to 280 seats, noting the increased seating may be limited for the 2025 conference due to vendor capacity and availability. They also carried a resolution calling on BCNU to organize the virtual HRE bargaining conferences as in-person events, similar to the union’s other bargaining conferences.
Delegates rejected six resolutions that called on the union to:
- Appoint EDMP representatives to three-year terms.
- Increase the length of the annual HRE conference to two days with salary replacement.
- Move responsibility for approving regional HRE caucus and network budgets from regional council members to the respective provincial caucus or network chairs and change the funding for regional caucuses and networks from regional to provincial.
- Move responsibility for the HRE Committee from the Vice President to the Executive Councillor for Pensions and Seniors’ Health.
- Create a diversity, equity and inclusion labour relations officer position with knowledge and expertise in human rights, truth and reconciliation and DEI matters.
- Form an LPN network with the current HRE network funding.
Delegates debated and voted on all resolutions on the agenda.