Bargaining Updates

The Board and ULFA negotiating teams held their twenty-fourth session toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA) on April 24, 2025. To promote efficient use of this half-day session, the parties prepared and exchanged written proposals two days in advance. The Board team’s proposal and rationale addressed Article 32 (leaves of absence). The ULFA […]

On February 26th and 28th, 2025, ULFA hosted its ninth and tenth Bargaining Town Halls in the current  round of negotiations toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). Both town halls provided an update on the overall progress of bargaining to date.  Members of the ULFA negotiating team reviewed the progress of negotiations in

On January 24, 2025, the ULFA negotiation team contacted the Board’s negotiation team to see if sufficient proposals (Articles) were available for the scheduled January 29 and 31 negotiation sessions. The two teams mutually agreed to cancel these bargaining dates and use the time to instead continue developing proposals. The Board had previously cancelled the

The Board and ULFA negotiating teams held their eighteenth and nineteenth bargaining sessions toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA) on January 20 and 22, 2025. Two ULFA members attended as observers, one on each of the two days. Teaching obligations required two ULFA negotiating team members to be absent for a portion of

On January 16th and 17th, 2025, ULFA hosted its seventh and eighth Bargaining Town Halls in the current  round of negotiations toward a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). Both town halls focused on proposals presented by the ULFA and Board negotiating teams on what a new Teaching Professor rank could look like and how it could be introduced.  After a

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

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

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