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The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association and Wilfrid Laurier University filed jointly for conciliation on Monday, September 23. Negotiations between Contract Academic Staff and the University are stalled, but both sides are optimistic that a settlement can be reached with the assistance of a conciliator, who will be appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Labour. […]

August 30, 2013

August 13, 2013

WLUFA is pleased to announce the results of the election of the Executive Committe Members for 2013-2014.  They are as follows:

Dear Colleagues, As we head into the ‘home stretch’ of the semester, the fourth and final issue of WLUFA advocate is out (see below). According to the CAUT’s national committee on Contract Academic Staff (CAS), Laurier is now in the top six universities “having the largest number of Contract Academic Staff” – we now employ […]

Laurier Librarians of WLUFA support the right of professional librarians to communicate well-founded assessments regarding resources and providers.  Librarians play a key role in contributing judgments on resources in aid of collection development.  These opinions fall under the principle of academic freedom.  Without the freedom to openly discuss and share opinions about academic information products, […]

WLUFA wishes to express its strong support of our colleague Associate University Librarian Dale Askey of McMaster University who has been sued by the Edwin Mellen Press. We view this suit as a direct threat to academic freedom and an attempt to intimidate and censor free speech. We stand by the joint statement of the […]