Focus on Contract Faculty Issue 1 2017
Category: Main Postings
Fall Wine & Cheese Reception
Labour Day Picnic 2017
Dear Colleagues, For those of you who are in town on Monday 4 September 2017, the Labour Day picnic is held at Waterloo Park between 12:00 noon and 4:00 pm, and the picnic includes activities for children. All the proceeds from the day will be donated to the United Way Waterloo Region Please Note: Bill 148 Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act Take […]
$15 and Fairness Update
The fight for $15 and Fairness is far from over. Next week the clause-by-clause review begins and your support is needed now more than ever. Please contact your MPP and express your support for Bill 148 and the amendments that will radically improve the work life of your Contract Faculty colleagues. In September, the […]
Contract faculty want labour reform Bill 148 to end perpetual contract status
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/university-contract-instructors-workplace-jobs-bill-148-1.4215951
Tentative Agreement Reached!
At 12:30 a.m. on July 11th, WLUFA and Wilfrid Laurier University Administration reached a tentative agreement for the full-time bargaining unit. Stay tuned for details about ratification meetings. I would like to thank the negotiating team for their hard work! Michele Kramer WLUFA President
Glenda Wall and Paul Pulford receive Laurier Faculty Award for Service Excellence and Community Engagement
The following is an article posted on the intranet: https://lauriercloud.sharepoint.com/news/Pages/glenda-wall-and-paul-pulford-receive-laurier-faculty-award-for-service-excellence-and-community-engagement.aspx Glenda Wall, an associate professor in Laurier’s Department of Sociology, and Paul Pulford, a professor in Laurier’s Faculty of Music, are the recipients of Laurier’s 2017 Faculty Award for Service Excellence and Community Engagement. The award recognizes full-time faculty and librarians who, in addition to […]
Congratulations to the recipients of Laurier’s 2017 Awards for Teaching Excellence!
Early Career Excellence Richelle Monaghan, Department of Health Studies (Public Health) and Biology Sustained Excellence Tristan Long, associate professor, Department of Biology and Debra Nash-Chambers, Faculty of Arts, Liberal Arts, and Human and Social Sciences (CF) Innovation in Teaching Shoshana Pollack, professor, Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work Excellence in Internationalization […]
Photos and Biographies of the Spring Wine & Cheese and Recognition of Retirees/Century Club Inductees 2017
The Spring Wine & Cheese Reception and Recognition of Retirees/Century Club Inductees was very well attended! Michele Kramer, President, presented the Century Club awards and biographies of the retired (retiring) members for this year. Each member received a small gift from WLUFA. Thank you to everyone that helped make it a success. This year’s Century […]
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