Thursday, February 25, 2016
2 pm
Student Union Building, Room 307
Dalhousie University
This meeting will change the way we hold voting processes and elect the CUPE 3912 elective, and will be the biggest overhaul of our bylaws since they were created, so please try to come out!
CUPE Nova Scotia’s 2016 Black History Month Event – A Celebration and Contemplation – will take place on Friday, February 19, 2016 from 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at The Nova Scotia Community College, Truro Campus (36 Arthur Street)
Confirmed speakers include labour activists Lynn Jones (PSAC), Jason MacLean (NSGEU) and Liz Paris (CUPE).
Important Notice for members of CUPE 3912’s Dalhousie Bargaining Unit regarding Back Pay
CUPE 3912 and Dalhousie have recently signed a new Collective Agreement and, as such, those who taught at Dalhousie between September 2012 and December 2015 are entitled to back pay.
Members with a contract in the 2015-2016 Academic Year will automatically receive back pay. This includes TAs and markers.
Members who do NOT have a contract in the 2015-2016 Academic must contact the university in order to receive their back pay by JANUARY 15, 2016.
Members should contact Vicki Boyd
email: Vicki.boyd@dal.ca
phone number: (902) 494-1128.
mailing address: Human Resources Office,
Room 150, Henry Hicks Building,
6299 South Street
Halifax, NS
B3H 4R2
We are looking for contract instructors to take part in an online survey being conducted by the Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers (ANSUT) and Dr. Karen Foster, assistant professor in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.
The survey is part of a research project looking at the occupational experiences of contract instructors (i.e., university teaching staff whose jobs are in some way not permanent) in Nova Scotia universities. It will gather data on wages, hours of work, office space, teaching loads, and other objective qualities of contract jobs. It will also ask questions about your experiences as a contract instructor, probing for information on job satisfaction, stress, overwork, work-life ‘balance’, and other measures typically considered in evaluations of job quality.
If you are currently teaching at one or more Nova Scotia universities and your job is in some way non-permanent, whether your title is “contract instructor”, “contract academic staff”, a “limited-term appointment”, “part-time faculty”, “adjunct”, “sessional”, or similar, you are likely eligible to participate. The sole criteria for eligibility is that you are not regular faculty, you are not on the tenure-track (or the newer “lecturer stream”), and your job is not permanent.
The survey consists of approximately 60 questions—some multiple-choice and some open-ended—that should take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. It will be available to complete from October 13th to November 30th. If you wish to participate, please review the attached informed consent letter and click the following link, which will take you to a consent form, and—if you consent to participate—the survey:
https://surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=29509
Please note: the password to enter the survey is CAS2015
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Foster (at 902 494-6751, karen.foster@dal.ca – email is most reliable).
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Matthew Furlong
Communications Officer, Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers
902-414-8578
@ANSUT_Tweets
CUPE 3912
General Meeting
Friday,
20 November 2015,
12 pm
Saint Mary’s University, Sobey Building 4th floor, Secunda Room
Light refreshments will be provided.
The Executive Council of CUPE 3912 invites members, both Part-time Faculty and Teaching Assistants, to volunteer for the negotiating committees for the universities that will undertake bargaining for new contracts in 2016.
Dalhousie University Ratification Vote
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
To: Members, CUPE Local 3912 (Part-Time Faculty and Teaching Assistants at Dalhousie University with valid contract THIS TERM)
From : Steve Cloutier, President
Re: Ratification vote
The Local 3912 (Dalhousie) Bargaining Committee will be presenting the tentative agreement to the membership of the Dalhousie bargaining unit as follows:
Date: Friday, October 9, 2015
Place: Slonim Conference Room, (room 430), The Goldberg Building (Computer Science Building), University Avenue.
Time: 9 am- 4:30pm
Union Executive members will be there to give a presentation on the Agreement.
In solidarity,
Steve Cloutier, President
CUPE Local 3912
(Halifax) – The union representing 1,600 Part-time Academics, Instructors, Teaching Assistants, Markers and Demonstrators at Dalhousie University has resolved a Bargaining in Bad Faith complaint against their employer.
“The Parties reached a settlement on May 29th,” CUPE National Representative Marianne Welsh said. “The bad faith bargaining complaint has been withdrawn, and CUPE Local 3912 will represent Part-time Academics and Teaching Assistants at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture in Truro effective September 1st. Obviously, we are very pleased with this outcome.”
“With the Labour Board matter resolved, the Parties were able to reach a tentative agreement last week,” CUPE Local 3912 President Steve Cloutier said. “The Union will be scheduling a ratification meeting for our members in September.” CUPE 3912’s current collective agreement expired August 31, 2012.
For information:
Marianne Welsh, CUPE National Representative | 902.818.4125 (m)
Steve Cloutier, President, CUPE 3912 | 902.440.4549 (m)
David Loan, CUPE Communications | 613.301.7468 (m)
