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Dear Sisters and Brothers, At the membership meeting last night, the nominees for the executive (May 1 2015 – April 30 2016) were announced: Trustees: no nominees (please contact if interested – we need three) Membership Officer: Janer Akkas Secretary: Lisa Plant Treasurer: Joan Craig Vice President: Robert Powers President: Ashlyne O’Neil As noted in […]

Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. We held nominations for the vacant positions in our Local this Wednesday at the membership meeting. All seats were won by acclamation, so there will not be an election on November 12: Secretary: Lisa Plant Membership Officer: Joan Craig Trustees: Behdokht Rekabdar; Michelle Krieger; Akwasi Owusu Congratulations to all! Thank-you

Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. Please mark your calendars/agendas for our next membership meeting which is set for November 5 at 6pm, in accordance with our bylaws. It will be held in Erie Hall in room 2123. Pizza and pop (and grapefruit juice?) will be served. We will order much more pizza this time around

Dear Sisters and Brothers, 1. Terrific news this morning: WUFA and the Administration have reached a tentative agreement! It will need to be ratified by WUFA membership and Board of Governors (BOG) before it takes effect. 2. At our membership meeting on Wednesday, we put out a call for officer positions that need to be

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our first membership meeting of the year will be on Wednesday, October 1 at 6:00pm. in the Education Building (room 1123). Please note that this is the first day of the planned WUFA strike, so if there are any questions regarding the effect on us, I encourage you to come. We

Dear Brothers and Sisters, As you know, a new collective agreement between our union and the employer was signed in May (click here for a timeline before a deal was reached). Because the old collective agreement expired in August 2013, the new collective agreement begins September 2013. A copy of the agreement is available on

Dear Sisters and Brothers, If you have not read the news yet, we wanted to inform you that WUFA and the administration are continuing their negotiations. However, President Alan Wildeman released a letter to WUFA two days ago with a threat that WUFA’s terms of employment will change unless they agree to the administration’s terms

Dear Sisters and Brothers, The collective agreement that our union ratified on May 22 was ratified by the Board of Governors yesterday. Congratulations! You are now working under the new collective agreement and we will keep you updated about retroactive pay (our agreement begins September 2013) as details become available. As always, if you have

Dear Sisters and Brothers, There has been some (non)activity on campus in recent weeks that you should be aware of: 1. As you all know, the collective agreement was ratified by our membership on May 22, 2014. Our collective agreement has yet to be ratified by the Board of Governors. They are meeting on June

Dear Sisters and Brothers, You received an e-mail from us on May 1, 2014 with the timeline and update on the status of our contract negotiations. The following is a truncated version: August 31, 2013 – 4580 Collective Agreement expires; no bargaining dates or proposals from the administration. October 2013 – Membership voices collective agreement