On April 30th, 2024, ULFA issued notice to the Board to commence negotiations for an Essential Services Agreement (ESA). The ULFA ESA negotiating team includes Robert Williams (Health Sciences), Tony Montina (A&S), and is headed up by Rob Sutherland (A&S). On May 6th, 2024, the Board responded and indicated their negotiating team would be the […]
ULFA Issues Notice to Bargain Essential Services Agreement Read More »
By now, much has been said about Bill 18, the proposed law tabled by the provincial government in April to vet all federal funding coming into Alberta, whether to infrastructure assistance for municipalities, or to Heritage Canada funding for cultural projects, or to research grants to academics. It is unclear the extent to which this
April 30th, 2024 Dear Dwayne and Scott, This message is to confirm that the ULFA negotiation team is preparing an article list to exchange, asagreed upon in our last meeting. We are also preparing a draft agenda for our upcoming meeting blockon May 21st and 22nd, which we will send to you with the article
On April 22, the Board and ULFA negotiating teams met for the first time in this round of bargaining to reach a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement. After approval of the meeting agenda and introductions, the ULFA team presented a brief opening statement. The Board team had no opening statement but noted they will make
Opening 2024 Negotiations between the Board and ULFA Read More »
Representatives of the Board of Governors and ULFA met for a third time on March 28th to discuss the conditions under which Academic Staff teaching courses in the University’s new University of Lethbridge International College Calgary (UICC) would be employed. You can read more about the college (which is the result of a collaboration between
Third meeting between the Board and ULFA on the UICC “Pathways” College Read More »
Dear Members, On March 19th, 2024, representatives of the ULFA Executive and UofL Board met for a regularly scheduled ‘Article 7’ meeting. These are quarterly (or more frequent by mutual agreement) meetings of the two parties to discuss high level topics not directly related to grievances or other day- to- day labour- relations matters. While
Dear Members, In the 2020-2024 round of bargaining, the government directives for almost every public sector table included a potential 0.5% COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) increase dependent on a ‘Gain Sharing Formula.’ Essentially, if the average of private forecasts for Alberta’s Real GDP for 2023 were at or above 2.7%, an additional 0.5% would
On March 28, 2024, the ULFA Negotiating Team and Executive issued notice to commence bargaining to the University of Lethbridge Board of Governors. This notice follows ratification of ULFA’s bargaining mandate at our Fall General Meeting in Dec. 2023 and extensive discussion and consultation with ULFA membership and committees, including the Bargaining Resource Committee. Information on the public sector
Wishing our Members a Happy International Women’s Day today! It is important on this day to recall that gender-related inequities remain of grave concern. This is true within post-secondary (including the direct attack on Gender Studies at the University of Waterloo last summer), within our province, our continent, and our world more globally. Indeed, the Canadian Women’s Foundation warns
Investigation group meets second time with Board regarding the hiring of instructors for UICC Reminder: There will be Town Halls being held on March 26 at 9:00am – 10:00am and March 27 at 9:00am – 10am The ULFA investigation committee met on Thursday March 7 with representatives of the Board to discuss the processes and conditions
ULFA Navitas/UICC Investigation Group Meets Again With Board Read More »
The posts on this site are intended to provide general information to the membership of ULFA about labour matters. The information they contain is provided without prejudice or guarantee and is intended for a general, non-specialist audience. While every effort has been made to ensure that the information these posts contain is accurate, posts on this site do not represent an official legal or negotiating position of the Association. In the event of a disagreement between a post on this site and an official notice or document, the official document is correct.
