On December 19, 2024 the Board and ULFA negotiating teams held their seventeenth bargaining session toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). The session began with renewed discussion of an Article 4 issue regarding the role and scope of activities of inactive ULFA members who serve as appointed representatives of academic staff on the …
ULFA Update on Collective Bargaining December 19, 2024 Read More »
On December 3 and 4, 2024, the Board and ULFA negotiating teams held their fifteenth and sixteenth bargaining sessions toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). Teaching obligations and other commitments required that these be half-day sessions and that some ULFA team members be absent for portions of the sessions. One ULFA Member observer …
ULFA Update on Collective Bargaining December 3 & 4, 2024 Read More »
December 6th marks the 35th Anniversary of the murder 14 women at the Polytechnique Montréal. Canada has marked this date as a day of remembrance and action on violence against women. While there have been numerous campaigns to address gender-based violence, including the current UN campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls (November 25-December …
ULFA Statement for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women Read More »
On November 26, 2024 the Board and ULFA negotiating teams held their fourteenth bargaining session toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). Teaching obligations required two ULFA team members to be absent for portions of the session. The session began with discussion seeking to clarify which aspects of the ASCA’s Article 11 provisions addressing …
ULFA Update on Collective Bargaining November 26, 2024 Read More »
On November 12 and 20, 2024, ULFA hosted its fifth and sixth Bargaining Town Halls in this round of negotiations toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). Both town halls began with a brief update on the overall progress of bargaining to date and a reminder of the membership-approved ULFA bargaining mandate, which can …
Report on Bargaining Town Halls of November 12 & 20, 2024 Read More »
ULFA Statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: The United Nations has designated November 25th as the day to mark the ongoing campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls. The global figures are staggering: in 2023, a woman or a girl was killed, on average, every 10 minutes by …
UN Day for Elimination of Violence against Women Read More »
November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, first observed on this day in 1999 to memorialize Rita Hester and Chenelle Pickett, both transgender African American women who were murdered in Boston in the 1990s. Transgender people continue to be subjected to some of the highest rates of sexual harassment and violence in Canada and …
ULFA Statement for the Transgender Day of Remembrance Read More »
On October 31 and November 1, 2024, the Board and ULFA negotiating teams held their twelfth and thirteenth bargaining sessions toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). For the October 31 session, one ULFA member joined as an observer, and the ULFA Labour Relations Officer attended as a resource person for part of November …
ULFA Update on Collective Bargaining October 31 & November 1, 2024 Read More »
On October 2nd, the Executive Committee met, at his request, with the leader of the Official Opposition, Naheed Nenshi in the ULFA Office. It was a wide-ranging, very informative discussion with Mr. Nenshi asking to learn more about the University of Lethbridge, the community here, and the effect of recent changes in the admission of …
ULFA Executive Meetings with NDP Opposition Leader and PSE Shadow Critic Read More »
It is the time of year when many areas are working on their draft timetables for the 2025/2026 academic year. ULFA writes to remind all Members of their ability to request formal accommodations for their class schedules. Formal accommodations are not the same as preferences. All Members may be asked about their teaching “preferences,” i.e. …
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