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The “Full-Time Faculty and Professional Librarians” turn for collective agreement re-negotiation

By wlufaPosted on March 13, 2017Posted in Events, Faculty News, Main PostingsTagged Andrew Herman, Azim Essaji, bargaining, collective agreements, email, events, faculty, feedback, full-time members, Glenda Wall, goals, Joanne Oud, negotiations, priorities, Sheila McKee-Protopapas, surveys, WLUFA office, working conditions

The “Full-Time Faculty and Professional Librarians” Collective Agreement is up for re-negotiation this spring, giving us a fresh opportunity to work together to solve our collective problems and secure better working conditions for the members of this bargaining unit. A survey has been distributed by email to these members to start the process of determining […]

OCUFA’s recommendations for the Ontario budget

By wlufaPosted on January 23, 2017January 23, 2017Posted in Main Postings, OCUFATagged budgets, Canada, CdnPSE, contract faculty, data, employment laws, faculty, fair employment, fairness, funding, information, Judy Bates, labour laws, laws, Mark Rosenfeld, Ministry of Finance, ocufa, OCUFA Executive Director, OCUFA President, ONpse, Ontario, pensions plans, performance, priorities, recommendations, reports, retired faculty, solvency, student-faculty ratio, tenure-stream faculty

[Copied from email sent by Mark Rosenfeld, Executive Director of OCUFA.] See OCUFA’s 2017 pre-budget submission, which sets out OCUFA’s priorities for the Ontario Budget. OCUFA’s recommendations include: Increasing per-student funding for Ontario’s universities to match the average for the rest of Canada; Making a commitment to supporting faculty renewal, including full-time faculty hiring that […]