Our latest issue of Collectively Speaking is about teaching evaluations. Anxiety inducing for faculty, particularly untenured faculty and faculty seeking promotion, the Association regularly receives questions about teaching evaluations from members. This issue of Collectively Speaking poses some of those questions and offers information and advice in response. Download Collectively Speaking
Read More »The December 2022 issue of Collectively Speaking focuses on bargaining, the background, trends and recent financial settlements at post-secondary institutions in Canada. It also includes a brief update on preparations for our next round of negotiations. Download Collectively Speaking
Read More »The May 2022 issue of Collective Speaking focuses on a presentation, made at the Joint Grievance Committee meeting in mid-March by USFA Senior Grievance Officer Colleen Bell, to senior university administrators. The presentation outlined challenges faculty members encounter with administrative processes at the U of S, and how these challenges add to and impede the […]
Read More »The March 2022 issue of Collective Speaking focuses on the statement: It’s about choice. In this issue, USFA Chair Geraldine Balzer remarks on some of the foundational articles of our Collective Agreement and notes the challenge facing us is that each party to the Collective Agreement can choose how to live up to those contractual […]
Read More »This issue of Collectively Speaking contains a summary of bargaining trends across Canada and a snapshot of financial settlements negotiated by CAUT academic staff associations over the last year. In addition, we have a message from USFA Chair Geraldine Balzer, information about upcoming meetings with members, and a brief article reminding members to tell us […]
Read More »Our administrative workload: Increases and hurdles to our research Increasingly the USFA is dealing with administrative workload related issues. At the heart of issues faced by members are employer unilateral decisions that are taking their toll. This issue of Collectively Speaking is about two services: 1-Concur particularly as it pertains to travel arrangements, and 2- […]
Read More »In this issue of Collectively Speaking there is a message from USFA Chair Patricia Farnese, an article about campus safety and updates on meetings with students and other unions representing U of S employees. Download Collectively Speaking
Read More »In the fall of 2020, news outlets carried stories about the significant wage gap between male and female professors showing up in Statistics Canada salary data for full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities for 2019/20. Concern was expressed here by many faculty members. This issue of Collectively Speaking provides a preliminary examination of the gap […]
Read More »Our issue of Collectively Speaking for January 2021 contains a summary of collective bargaining from universities across Canada as reported at the CAUT Council meeting in November. With less than 18 months left in the term of our Collective Agreement, this will provide you with a sense of the current national bargaining landscape. This issue […]
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