Professional Employees Association (PEA) bargaining

Updated: May 12, 2026

On May 11, 2026 a tentative collective agreement was reached based on the Province’s 2025 Balanced Measures Mandate between the University of Victoria and the Professional Employees’ Association (PEA). The tentative agreement, which will be in effect July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029, is subject to ratification by the union and its members, and by the university’s Board of Governors.

The Professional Employees’ Association represents 1,237 administrative and academic professional employees (1,218 FTE) at UVic. This component of our workforce includes student counsellors, systems analysts, desktop support staff, nurses, fundraisers, scientific technicians, engineers, student recruiters, academic advisers and more.

More details will be available once the agreement is ratified by the bargaining unit and the Board of Governors.