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Sep
2
Tue
First Day of School Year 2025-2026
Sep 2 all-day

CUPE728  would like to take this moment to say thank you for everything you do to help our schools run smoothly. Your work may not always be in the spotlight, but it is absolutely essential, and it doesn’t go unnoticed. Here’s to a great year ahead.  Remember, your Shop Stewards and your Union are to to help you have a successful year

 

 

Sep
13
Sat
important Date – proposal ratification
Sep 13 all-day

More information will be shared the closer we get to the date. This vote will be on YOUR collective agreement.

We will be scheduling a vote for our members on proposals to present to the Employer.
This vote will be for all 728 members.  please be sure you have been inducted to the union so you can vote

Sep
17
Wed
Monthly Union Meeting, Sept 17, 2025 8pm
Sep 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Sep
20
Sat
Welcome Back BBQ
Sep 20 all-day
Sep
29
Mon
Professional Day
Sep 29 all-day

To all our members that have their first non-instructional/professional day: Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to our schools, each other and the community.

Sep
30
Tue
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Sep 30 all-day

Witness the Truth, Change the Future

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) calls to action are meant to:

“Meaningfully and permanently dismantle the systemic racism that leads to worse health outcomes, premature death, and limited economic opportunities. Vastly improve life for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Ensure, through thorough and honest education, that this never happens again”.

Reconciliation is unique for everyone.
What reconciliation means is as unique as each person who envisions it. Heal and learn to make your contribution to truth and reconciliation. It is a day to call upon all of those who can effect change to take action to advance reconciliation in Canada. Every one of us can effect change. We seek healing to contribute to reconciliation in a good way that honours our unique skills, experience, and vision for wholeness.

With ongoing national dialogue, we walk together toward a safe space where true collaboration, partnership, and reconciliation can happen. 

For more information, click here


 

Oct
13
Mon
Thanksgiving Day – School Closed
Oct 13 all-day
Oct
15
Wed
Monthly Union Meeting – Oct 15, 2025, 6pm
Oct 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

This meeting is for ALL CUPE728 members, even if you’re brand new.

Not sure what a Monthly Union Meetings? This is a meeting where you get to hear what your Union Executive has been up to, what important events will be happening, how your union dues are being spent and if there are motions, you will get to vote on them.  You will also be able to ask questions.

This meeting will be in-person at our Union Office (#209 – 6678 152nd Street, Surrey BC V3S 7J2) or on-line using Zoom. The registration for the meeting will be sent out through the Chronicle Newsletter and to your personal email address (we cannot use your work email).  If you have changed your personal email address or have not sent it to the Union, please email office@cupe728.ca or commofficer@cupe728.ca

Nov
10
Mon
Professional Day
Nov 10 all-day
Nov
11
Tue
Remembrance Day
Nov 11 all-day

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
        In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
        In Flanders fields.