From OCUFA: Full-time members of the St. Jerome’s University Academic Staff Association (SJUASA) have reached a five-year agreement with their university administration. The faculty association achieved across-the-board salary increases competitive with other faculty associations, as well as an $850 increase to each member’s base salary to maintain parity with University of Waterloo faculty. Among other […]
Month: July 2018
OCUFA statement on back-to-work legislation tabled by Ontario Government
The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) strongly condemns the tabling of back-to-work legislation by the new Ontario government aimed at the striking members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3903 (CUPE 3903). We firmly support the rights of all academic workers to fair negotiations and good-faith collective bargaining, and are concerned with […]
Important Arbitration Decision Validates What Many of Us Already Know About Student Evaluations of Teaching
The following notice was widely distributed by Russell Janzen at OCUFA. The link provided includes not only a summary of William Kaplan’s arbitration decision, but also expert reports that were used to inform the decision. Student evaluations of our members’ work have frequently been a contentious topic at our WLUFA bargaining tables and the importance […]