Bargaining is heating up around the province in May, with multiple days of bargaining scheduled at Carleton, Nipissing and Brescia. York anticipates having days scheduled by mid-May. Complex negotiations are also underway at the Canadian Military Colleges Faculty Association (CMCFA), which represents faculty at the Royal Military College, to deal with Federal Budget’s demand that [Read More…]
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Some progress was made recently in the first collective agreement negotiations at Brescia with the parties signing off on three articles. The same cannot be said for St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto; the pace of first contract negotiations there is best described as glacial. The parties have met eight times over four [Read More…]
On March 19th the Chairs of the OCUFA Collective Bargaining and Status of Women committees co-hosted a conference call on the campus climate for female chief negotiators in our member associations. This initiative is part of a broader listening tour undertaken by the Status of Women Committee to hear current concerns associated with gender and [Read More…]
On March 16, 2012, the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) approved their new agreement with the university administration. The Laurier Board of Governors approved the deal on March 8, 2012. The new contract includes a two per cent salary increase a year for three years, as well as a targeted Ontario system adjustment [Read More…]
The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) reached a tentative agreement with the Laurier’s administration at 3:00 a.m., March 2, 2012 after two full days of mediation. Planning is now underway for ratification meetings in Waterloo and Brantford. We will publish details of the settlement once it is approved by WLUFA’s membership. This article originally appeared [Read More…]
The tentative settlement reached by the administration and faculty association at Huron University College at Western was ratified by the membership on February 10, 2012. The three year agreement includes a 2.5 per cent salary increase for both full-time and sessional faculty in each year of the agreement. The sessional faculty are now also represented [Read More…]
The faculty association and administration at Wilfrid Laurier University have received a “ no Board “ from the Ministry of Labour; this means the parties will be in a position to strike or lock-out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, March 3. However, the parties will make an attempt to reach an agreement in mediation with Greg Long [Read More…]
After five unsuccessful conciliation sessions, the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) requested a no-Board report on February 9, 2012. The parties remain apart on a number of key issues, including compensation and pensions, and continue to work on several key non-monetary issues such as professional teaching positions. The Executive of WLUFA has been authorized [Read More…]
The Ryerson Faculty Association (RFA) has ratified their new agreement with a strong ratification vote. The four-year deal includes yearly ATB increases of 1.5 per cent in the first two years, followed by 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent. It also includes a 1.5 per cent increase in salary to offset an 1.5 per [Read More…]
A tentative agreement was reached last Saturday morning at 1 am in the negotiations between the Ryerson Faculty Association and the university. A ratification meeting has been scheduled for December 15. Members of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Faculty Association ratified their new agreement on November 28. The agreement contains scale increases of 1.5 per cent [Read More…]
The pace of bargaining appears to have slowed at Wilfrid Laurier University in the negotiations covering full-time professors and librarians. Faculty association negotiators have presented a full package of proposals, including monetary, to their administration counterparts but have not received responses to the monetary issues. Meantime, the pace of meetings has slowed. At the University [Read More…]
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine Faculty Academic Staff Union (NOSMFSA 1, OPSEU 677) bargaining unit reached a tentative agreement November 2 at 3:30 in the morning. Details of the new contract will be made public after ratification. A ratification meeting is expected next week. This article originally appeared in the OCUFA Report . To receive stories [Read More…]
Members of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Faculty Association have ratified their new, five-year agreement with a 95 per cent vote in favour. The tentative agreement was reached October 13 and ratified Wednesday of last week. The agreement is retroactive to July 2010. Though the negotiations were drawn out and often difficult, faculty [Read More…]
After close to 16 months without a contract, members of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Faculty Association (UOITFA) have come to a tentative agreement with the university. Ratification voting will conclude Thursday. “This has been a long and at times challenging process to reach a tentative agreement,” said UOITFA President Hannah Scott. “Our [Read More…]
During the election, the Progressive Conservatives promised to “reform” Ontario’s system of interest arbitration that resolves collective bargaining impasses. Had the Conservatives won, many new constraints and criteria would have been imposed, most certainly to the detriment of unions and workers. With the election of a minority Liberal government, the question now turns to what, [Read More…]