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Call for Nominations for CAUT Sarah Shorten Award / Appel de candidatures pour le prix Sarah-Shorten

By wlufaPosted on April 3, 2017Posted in CAUT

Memorandum 17:06 Date: April 3, 2017 To: Presidents and Administrative Officers, Local, Federated and Provincial Associations From: David Robinson, Executive Director Re: Call for Nominations for CAUT Sarah Shorten Award CAUT is soliciting nominations for the Sarah Shorten Award. The award was established in 1990 in […]

Spring Wine & Cheese Social

By wlufaPosted on March 13, 2017Posted in Events, Faculty News, Main Postings

Spring Wine and Cheese Poster 2017

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 […]

WLUFA Equity and Diversity Town Hall

By wlufaPosted on March 9, 2017Posted in Events, Faculty News, Main Postings

WLUFA Equity and Diversity Town Hall poster

Tweet and Facebook about contract faculty with the rest of Ontario on March 3rd

By wlufaPosted on March 1, 2017Posted in Events, Main Postings, OCUFATagged 15andFairness, Andrea Calver, Ben Lewis, Board of Governors, CdnPSE, contract faculty, contractfaculty, Facebook, fair employment, fairness, Fairness4CF, Laurier, Laurier administration, ocufa, Ontario, OurUniversity, Twitter, Wilfrid Laurier University

On March 3, OCUFA is asking faculty, students, staff, and supporters across Ontario to engage in a day of action on social media to raise awareness about the need for fairness for contract faculty. This initiative is a project of their Contract Faculty and Faculty Complement Committee, and will build on the momentum generated during […]

WLUFA Denounces Trump Executive Action and Stands in Solidarity with our Muslim Community

By wlufaPosted on January 31, 2017February 1, 2017Posted in Main PostingsTagged academia, academics, Canada, Canadians, Donald Trump, events, extremism, freedom of religion, hate, hate crimes, islamophobia, letters, muslims, National Day of Solidarity, politics, prejudice, Quebec, racism, religion, support, terrorism, United States, US President, violence, WLUFA, WLUFA Executive1 Comment

[Posted on behalf of the WLUFA Executive.] Ignorance is not bliss; it is a danger to society. WLUFA stands in solidarity with Muslims and others who condemn the Executive Order taken by Donald Trump that bans citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. We also extend our sympathies for and solidarity with […]

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 […]

Sexual Violence on Campus: “Academic Matters” and Resources

By wlufaPosted on January 10, 2017Posted in Main PostingsTagged Academic Matters, advice, Brantford Campus, campus violence, equity, faculty, gendered violence, Gendered Violence Task Force, harassment, Kathleen Wynne, Laurier policies, Lynn Kane, policies, Rebecca Godderis, resources, Sarah Scanlon, sexual assault, sexual violence, students, suggestions, support, tips, violence, Waterloo Campus, WLUFA, WLUFA Executive

[Posted on behalf of WLUFA Executive.] While some of you may have already received a hard copy of Academic Matters Winter 2017 issue, the WLUFA Executive feels that its subject matter, “Sexual Violence on Campus”, and its connection to the growing body of work being done by our own members, merits our bringing it into […]

KW MPP Catherine Fife supports fair and equitable work for Contract Faculty at Laurier

By wlufaPosted on December 22, 2016Posted in Main PostingsTagged Benefits, Catherine Fife, Compensation, contract faculty, CUPE, debt, fair employment, fairness, government, Job security, Kitchener, KW, letters, London, Members of Provincial Parliament, Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities, money, MPPs, Ontario, pay, Peggy Sattler, precariat, precarious employment, precarity, quotes, salary, students, support, teaching, Twitter, universities, wages, Waterloo

Given her support for the Ontario Craft Distillers on Twitter, WLUFA contacted MPP Catherine Fife regarding our own precariously-employed Contract Faculty. Her office had this to say: You are correct in identifying that thousands of students in Waterloo’s universities – as well as those across our province – are being taught by professors with no job […]

Regular Faculty & Librarians: Support your precariously-employed colleagues

By wlufaPosted on December 22, 2016Posted in Main PostingsTagged colleagues, collective agreements, conciliation, contract faculty, holidays, job actions, librarians, lock-outs, Michele Kramer, Negotiating Team, negotiations, no board report, regular faculty, Strike Action Committee, strikes, support, updates, WLUFA Executive, WLUFA President

(Originally delivered as an email from WLUFA President, Michele Kramer, to Regular Faculty and Librarians on December 21, 2016.) Late last week, Members received an update on the negotiations for a new Contract Faculty and Part-time Librarian Collective Agreement from the CF Negotiating Team. As indicated, our first day in conciliation didn’t produce much hope […]