Important ULFA COVID update, August 27, 2021
With classes just under two weeks away, there has been a number of important developments with regard to the University’s return-to-campus plans for the fall semester:
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GFC Nominations Committee Seeks Academic Staff Members
We encourage you to review the list and consider nominating yourself and/or your colleagues (with their permission).
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ULFA Supports Alberta Nurses
ULFA fully supports Alberta nurses, and all healthcare workers, who are standing up for safe patient care and against understaffing, bed closures and rollbacks.
Accommodations: What are they and how are they obtained?
Accommodations: What are they and how are they obtained?
Human Rights law sets out a number of protected grounds. These protected grounds are outlined in the Alberta Human Rights Act and include:
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Message From ULFA President About the Return to Campus
Like many of you, I was shocked by the decision of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Health’s announcement last week regarding the elimination of isolation requirements for COVID-positive individuals, of testing for asymptomatic individuals, and similar regulations.
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ULFA Health and Safety Meeting Report
On July 26th 2021, the Health and Safety Advisory Committee had an extraordinary meeting to discuss the planned return to campus and start of classes in September 2021.
ULFA Statement on the Missing Children of Canada’s Former Indian Residential School System
We would like to express our deepest condolences to all those impacted by the confirmation of 751 unmarked graves on the Cowessess First Nation near the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School (Saskatechewan).
ULFA Statement on the missing children of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, near Kamloops, B.C.
There are no words adequate to express the horror and sadness of the discovery last week of the remains of two hundred and fifteen missing Indigenous children in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory.
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Cuts to the University mean cuts to Lethbridge
Lethbridge is a university town with students making up 10% of our population. The U of L is the city’s second largest employer only next to Alberta Health Services (another sector that is currently threatened with drastic funding reductions). Lethbridge College is its fifth. The cuts the government is making to these institutions will have a very direct, immediate and negative impact in our community.
NDA MOU Announcement
ULFA is pleased to announce that we have signed another Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Board of Governors. This most recent MOU concerns the use of confidentiality agreements, both those that had been introduced earlier this year to all Members as well as supplemental confidentiality agreements that are often used on various committees and for department chairs. We received many concerned communications from our membership about these agreements, and we subsequently grieved their use.
