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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ULFA hosted its third and fourth Bargaining Town Halls on October 23 and 24, 2024, regarding the current round of negotiations toward a new Collective Agreement. Members of the ULFA Negotiating Team briefly reviewed the bargaining process to date and summarized the main points of discussion at the most recent bargaining sessions held October 17
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The ULFA Negotiating Team provides an update on Collective Bargaining sessions on October 17-18, 2024.
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On July 3, 2024, ULFA sent the Board a full proposal for an Essential Services Agreement (ESA). On July 31, 2024, ULFA sent the Board a note suggesting that we begin negotiating an ESA. We have now agreed to meet November 4, 2024. An ESA must be in place and approved by the Alberta Labour
On September 19 and 20, ULFA hosted its second and third Bargaining Town Halls in this round of Collective Agreement bargaining. The Chief Spokesperson of ULFA’s Negotiating Team presented an overview of the process so far. The presentation reviewed the articles opened by both parties, identified the articles that have been exchanged to date, and
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