University Budget Report Back

The 2019-2020 University budget was approved by the UOIT Board of Governors at their April 24th meeting. The agenda for the Board of Governor’s meeting can be found at this link. The draft budget was presented and approved for recommendation by the Board’s Audit and Finance Committee on April 17th 2019. The agenda for that …

Information on Timely Changes the Collective Agreement

The Association and the Administration are still working on the final copy of the new Collective Agreement and we expect to have it posted, printed, and distributed in the coming weeks. That said, the new CA is in full effect as of the date of ratification and we want to make sure that Faculty Members …

UOIT Faculty Association Annual General Meeting: April 25th 2019 1pm to 3pm

When: Thursday April 25th 2019, 1pm to 3pm Where: J102, North Campus Constitutional Amendments Constitutional Amendments are now being accepted for the April 25th 2019 Annual General Membership Meeting as per Article 14.1 of the UOIT Faculty Association Constitution. Please use the Constitutional Amendment Form to submit any constitutional amendments. The Faculty Association is asking …

Bargaining Update 10: February 19th 2019

Dear Fellow Faculty Members, I hope you enjoyed the Family Day Weekend. This past week was a busy and somewhat productive one. We met for a full day on Monday with the Administration’s team, and two long days on Wednesday and Thursday with our provincially appointed mediator. Monday started slowly with little progress. With the …

Bargaining Update 9: February 12th 2019

Dear Fellow Colleagues, We met yesterday with the administration’s bargaining team, and I am sorry to report that we were not able to make the progress we had hoped leading into four days with the provincially appointed mediator – which will be Wednesday and Thursday this week, and Tuesday and Thursday next week. We filed …

Bargaining Update 8: February 6th 2019

Dear Colleagues, We finally exchanged monetary proposals on Monday in the presence of our conciliator from the Ministry of Labour. We did not have much time left to fully discuss these proposals, and so I will reserve sharing too much information before we have had an opportunity to develop a better understanding of each other’s …

Bargaining Update 7: January 31st 2019

Dear Fellow Faculty Members, First and foremost, thank you all for the strong support you showed through the successful Strike Mandate Vote! The bargaining team very much appreciates it. We have had two sessions since my in-person updates on January 16th, 22nd and 23rd. The sessions were on Monday January 28th and Wednesday January 30th. …