New Labour Relations Manager

joins Personnel

Luciano Anjos is the new Labour
Relations Manager at Douglas College.

Luciano comes to Douglas College’s
Personnel Department with many years
of experience in human resources,
mediation and conciliation, as well as
private sector background in research
and development and in the forestry
industry.

His new responsibilities will include
chairing the BCGEU contract
negotiations and interpreting both the
BCGEU and DCFA collective
agreements. Luciano describes himself
as a collaborative worker and a parallel
thinker.

“T like to work collaboratively. The
whole idea of mediation is to be able to
look at things in a collaborative way,
and work toward mutually beneficial
agreements, rather than confrontational
ways of dealing with issues. We’re all
here in this place, with the same needs
and the same drives pushing most
people.”

Luciano was born and raised in
Vancouver. He completed a B.Sc. in
Physics at UBC, and a diploma in
management at BCIT. He finds some
interesting differences between the
private sector, where his experience lies,
and the public sector.

“I’m finding that the environment
here is much more process-driven.
That’s not bad or good -- it’s just
different. The private sector is often
only concerned with the end result and
not enough with the process of how you
get there. There are pluses and minuses
to both sides. I try to find a balance.”

Luciano lives in New Westminster
with his wife Elspeth, a school teacher
in Coquitlam. #

 

 

Luciano Anjos joined the College as Labour Relations
Manager in the Personnel Department in February.
His responsibilities will include chairing the BCGEU
contract negotiations and interpreting the College's
collective agreements.