MSVU Bargaining Updates

Upcoming Conciliation Sessions:

  • TBA

Past Bargaining Sessions

  • April 1, 2025
  • April 3, 2025
  • April 11, 2025
  • April 15, 2025
  • April 23, 2025
  • May 23, 2025
  • May 30, 2025
  • June 5, 2025
  • June 19, 2025
  • June 20, 2025
  • June 24, 2025
  • June 30, 2025

Updates

September 1 2025: Conciliation session with the Employer, facilitated by a conciliator appointed by the Province of Nova Scotia, was held on August 26th.

To remind members, your bargaining team, based on proposals approved in September 2024 sought the following during this round of bargaining:

  1. A significant wage increase to offset inflation and help members with cost of living.
  2. Reforming the evaluation process so that members would not lose precedence.
  3. Removing restrictions on members’ academic freedom to teach and assess.
  4. Protecting members from being disciplined for working outside the Mount (e.g. tutoring).

We regret to inform members that we have been unable to to reach the basis for a new collective agreement. Further meetings with The Employer will be scheduled in hopes of getting to a settlement with the Employer for a proposed collective agreement that can be submitted to members for their approval.

Your bargaining team will continue to brief members on the outstanding issues. The strike vote called for September 12-15 and the MSVU CUPE Unit meeting for September 11 will continue as scheduled as will strike preparations.

February 2025: Bargaining has been delayed due to changes in the Employer’s lead negotiator and illness on the Union side. We anticipate bargaining meetings to begin in March.

January 2025: The Union and management’s new Lead Negotiator are in the process of setting up dates to begin the bargaining process.

October 21, 2024: On July 1, 2024, CUPE filed a “notice to bargain” with the Employer. Due to the ongoing litigation at the Labour Relations Board where the Employer is trying to coerce the Faculty Association into accepting the Employer’s version of the March 2024 agreement, we have not yet met with the Employer to negotiate. We are analyzing the results of the Bargaining Survey and will discuss at our unit meeting. Our highest priority is to win through collective bargaining, a fair wage improvement and better working conditions (office space, academic freedom, an end to arbitrary evaluations and more).

September 1, 2024: The current collective agreement expired on August 31, 2024.

September 21, 2023: The negotiating committee has formed.

 

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