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.

Mandate

Academic Integrity

Ensuring adequate faculty complements and backfills for course releases and leaves; recognizing and mitigating the chronic downloading of administrative work onto faculty members; ensuring that workloads are properly credited; improving support for research; and improving supports for Department Chairs.

Shared Governance

Establishing shared governance models in non-departmentalized faculties and elsewhere; ensuring better transparency; establishing Joint Advisory Groups on Teaching and Research.

Salary & Benefits

Ensuring that our salary and benefits reflect the work that we do, and are competitive.

September/October
2025

Bargaining consultation meetings with Members

November
2025

Bargaining Survey is distributed to all Members

December
2025

Members vote unanimously in support of the Bargaining Mandate

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