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Contract Academic Staff Fight for Job Security
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Ratification Vote
Good Morning, The voting to ratify the tentative collective agreement will continue until Friday, March 13th at Noon. Members may vote at either campus. Below are the times and places you may cast your vote. There is a printed summary of the details at each voting location for your review. If you have any […]
zero tuition campaign
Hi everyone, Well, we finally did it: we officially launched our zero tuition campaign at a press conference this morning. David Wheeler, CBU’s President, Brandon Ellis, CBU’s Student Union President, joined me, as CBUFA President, in signing a letter calling for an end to tuition for post-secondary education in Canada. More specifically, we call […]
Academia has to stop eating its young
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/academia-has-to-stop-eating-its-young/article23296659/
Moving OCUFA’s priorities forward: OCUFA’s February Board meeting
Dear Colleagues: At the February 7-8, 2015 OCUFA Board meeting, it was noted that a short article discussing the deliberations at the Board meeting would be written for those who wanted to include it in their faculty association newsletters or in other forms of communication with their members. Below is the article that has been […]
CAUT Equity networks / Réseaux d’équité de l’ACPPU
Memorandum 15:06 To: Presidents and Administrative Officers, Local, Provincial and Federated Associations From: Audrey Kobayashi and Jacqueline Holler, Equity Committee Co-Chairs Re: CAUT Equity Networks As co-chairs of the new CAUT Standing Committee on Equity, we are delighted to update you on the committee’s activities. We met for the first time […]
Help us make We Teach Ontario a success
Dear colleagues; As you may have seen, OCUFA launched the We Teach Ontario campaign yesterday. The goal of this initiative is to highlight both the important work done by contract faculty, and the challenges they face. We’ve had some good pick-up online and in the media, but we’re hoping you can help us push […]
TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
The following e-mail is sent on behalf of Rob Kristofferson, WLUFA President Dear Members I am pleased to announce that as of 3:36 a.m. on Thursday, February 26th your Negotiating Team reached a tentative agreement with the University for a new Collective Agreement for Full-time Faculty and Professional Librarians. Additional details will follow shortly. I […]
OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards
Dear colleagues, attached are this year’s TALA packages. Please ensure that they are broadly distributed amongst your members and colleagues. If you have any questions, please direct them to me. Please note the applications must be submitted electronically (information in the packages) and the deadline is May 22, 2015. Karen Wheeler Senior Policy Analyst OCUFA […]