In consultations and in the bargaining survey, you made it clear that workplace pressures are rising to critical levels. This round of collective bargaining is the most effective means for addressing these challenges, securing and improving our working conditions, and defending the future of Canadian post-secondary education in our province and beyond.
Bargaining Mandate 2026
Improve Our Teaching Supports
- Stabilize and increase faculty member complement
- Protect against “thinning” of faculty complement when new programs/faculties are created, or when student cohorts are increased in professional programs
- Explore ways to improve job security for contract members and potential for conversions
- Improve minimum guarantees for pedagogical support
Invest in Our Research/Scholarly Activity
- Increase minimum course releases available for significant levels of research and/or scholarly and creative activity
Recognize Our Work
- Propose a workable mechanism to recognize unscheduled teaching
- Address the significant accumulation of unused course release credits
- Acknowledge “on-call” work of members in BU2
- Propose better incentives and supports for Chairs/Directors/Coordinators
- Ensure fair and reasonable workloads in AVC (BU1 and BU2)
- Recognize and support “unseen” work in teaching, such as managing student accommodations
Prioritize Our Academic Expertise
- Protect and increase faculty and academic librarian input on administrative search committees
- Ensure that academic decisions remain in the hands of academics, not administrators
- Establish structures to ensure collegial governance in non-departmentalized faculties and in the Library
- Establish joint committees on research and teaching, to ensure transparency and meaningful consultation
Secure Equity in Compensation, Hiring, and Tenure/Promotion
- Remove student opinion surveys as the sole basis for hiring decisions for contract members
- Ensure greater recognition of “service” for tenure, permanency, and promotion
- Establish an equity audit of compensation across the University
Address Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technological Supports
- Respond to concerns regarding AI’s potential impact on job security, intellectual property, and privacy
- Ensure transparency and meaningful consultation when adopting new technologies
- Establish access to real-time tech support in teaching contexts
Improve Our Compensation and Benefits
- Ensure a median position in total compensation compared to other similar universities
- Improve benefit entitlements for contract members
- Improve access to vacation for members in year-round professional programs
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