26/01/2012 WLUFA Newsletter January 24, 2012 The WLUFA Executive and the Bargaining Team would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in the bargaining unit meetings last week and […]
OCUFA Service Award for 2011-12
Dear Colleagues; The OCUFA Service Award was established last year to honour individuals who have done, or continue to do, exceptional work on behalf of the Ontario Confederation of University […]
Call for Nomination: the OCUFA 2011-2012 Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards
Dear Colleague; I am very pleased to announce that nominations for the 39th annual 2011-12 OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards are now open. Since 1973, these awards have recognized […]
WHERE DOES ALL THE MONEY GO?
In the last newsletter we talked about Laurier’s excellent financial performance in a number of areas: record positive surpluses in the General Fund, record cash flows from operations and record […]
Bargaining Crisis
FINANCIAL CRISIS? NO, BARGAINING CRISIS? YES! At this point, what remains on the bargaining table are proposals by the Administration to: (1) reduce pension benefits and ultimately eliminate our existing […]
WLUFA BARGAINING ADVISORY December 5, 2011 CONCILIATION
Why Do We Need Conciliation? A Strategic Analysis As pointed out in a previous newsletter, requesting conciliation has been a common practice for WLUFA negotiating teams in many negotiations in […]
The Budget “Crisis”
Budgets are like weather forecasts: both are just estimates or guesses about what may happen in the future. In contrast, financial statements are like actual observed weather, the real experienced […]
The Pension “Crisis”
The Administration has put on quite a show in the past two years about the serious deficit in our pension plan. A deficit is when assets in the pension plan […]
WLUFA BARGAINING ADVISORY November 23, 2011
BARGAINING PROGRESS: Since the last bargaining update, your WLUFA bargaining team for the renewal of the Collective Agreement for Full-time Faculty and Professional Librarians has presented all of our proposals […]
CAS Agreement
The following is a copy of the CAS agreement: Collective Agreement between Wilfrid Laurier University and Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association for Part-time Contract Academic Staff and Part-time Librarians – […]