Dear Teaching Faculty, The employer continues to evade setting a concrete date for tabling the rest of our monetary proposals. We did not think it could get much worse than tabling zero across-the-board increases, but an unwillingness to put any monetary offer on the table at all is much worse. This has us feeling increasingly …
Thursday October 5th 2017 To Dr. Pierre Zundel (Laurentian University President), I am writing on behalf of Tenured, Tenure-Track, and Teaching Faculty Members at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology to let you know we stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Laurentian University. When Faculty Members go on strike, it is not simply …
Having not met since July 7th, bargaining resumed on Monday September 18th. At that time we finally received a response to our workload proposal. On the one hand, we have seen some real movement on the general proposals we’ve made to better frame Teaching Faculty workload. Unfortunately, there has been absolutely no movement on the …
We were shocked, saddened and shamed by recent news of one survivor’s experience with UOIT. How could something like this happen? Our hearts are with the courageous survivor that shone her light on this appalling incident. Now that we are aware of this, it is imperative that we work to improve our responses so survivors …
Please show support for Teaching Faculty by signing on to their letter below. President McTiernan, This Fall will mark half a year of negotiations between Teaching Faculty and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). We want to be clear that we made every effort possible to reason with this institution and are …
At a special joint committee meeting of the UOITFA and UOIT, the following final report and recommendations were approved. While more work remains to be done in implementing the recommendations, this concludes the activities of the working group set out in Letter of Understanding #4 Re Student Course Evaluation Working Group in the 2015-18 Tenured …
May was a very busy and productive month of bargaining; we achieved a lot in this time, and have signed-off on most of our non-monetary proposals. The outstanding issues are office space and the definition of the bargaining unit. We have otherwise made some great gains in language on what is categorized as non-monetary Articles. Should …
Student Course Evaluation Working Group UOITFA Position Statement Summer 2016 The UOITFA has identified the use, storage and value of student opinion surveys (SOS) as a significant priority. A number of studies have been produced on this topic; while debate on the usefulness of these as a measure of teaching effectiveness abounds, virtually all scholarship …