Member Bulletins & Advisories

Bargaining Update, Cancellation of Mentorship Program and Recent Town Hall

Bargaining Update, Cancellation of Mentorship Program and Recent Town Hall

Dear Members, I hope that all is well with you. With bargaining now well underway, I’m writing to provide a brief update on behalf of your Negotiating Team, as well as providing updates on a couple of other matters.  Proposals we have presented to the Administration thus far: To develop an effective system to ensure fairness in the assignment of teaching workload within units and limit the maximum teaching workload of all Members over a two year period To improve…

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Bargaining Update and Employer Communications

Bargaining Update and Employer Communications

Dear Members, Thanks to those who attended our Bargaining Kickoff on May 1st.  It was wonderful to see you all there, and I am very grateful to Adam Con, our wonderful staff and the enthusiastic and hard-working members of our Membership Engagement Committee for organizing this inspiring event. It sent a clear message to the Administration about our members’ support for the FA’s Negotiating Team. It also gave members of your Negotiating Team more energy and strength as we returned…

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Joint Letter to the Administration Re Student Accommodation Issues

Joint Letter to the Administration Re Student Accommodation Issues

Dear Members, I hope that all is well with you. I’m very pleased to share with you here , a joint letter regarding concerns about the UVic senior administration’s approach to student accommodations that is co-written and co-signed by the FA, the PEA, CUPE 4163, CUPE 951, the Society for Students with a Disability (SSD), the University of Victoria Students Society (UVSS), the Graduate Students Society (GSS), and a number of other concerned student organizations.  We are very pleased to be able…

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Unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

We acknowledge the devastation that government-created residential schools and Indian hospitals have inflicted on the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples and the ongoing effectics of concentric trauma that continue to this day.

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