Fact Checker: The Truth and Myths
We've been receiving a lot of questions about CAUT and OCUFA, which we are all currently members of. How are these players related to...
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Jun 12, 20231 min read
Check out our FAQ on Certification!
We’ve heard a lot of questions about what options we have as Lecturers to effect positive change in our working conditions such as having...
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Jun 11, 20232 min read
"Good news"?
Why not become a unionized bargaining unit within a (non-unionized) FAUW? The proposal for lecturers to form a unionized bargaining unit...
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Jun 6, 20231 min read
Food for Thought
Event Reminder: Status of Lecturers Forum Friday, June 9th at 1:30-3:00 p.m. We are organizing a "Status of Lecturers Forum" on Friday,...
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May 29, 20232 min read
“We are pleased to announce…”: Are we pleased to receive?
Editor’s note: This blog reflects thoughts on the most up to date salary adjustment for 2023, which was announced in a joint memo from...
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May 27, 20232 min read
Stuck at 1%: “Thank you for contributing to Waterloo’s success as a world-class university.”
No, this is not an optical illusion, and yes, you can believe your eyes: the scale adjustment for the 2023-2024 fiscal year is 1%, at...
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Apr 25, 20235 min read
Bill 124 Deemed Unconstitutional: Implications for UW Faculty and Environmental Scan
Issues that affect salary are especially important. Please share this post with your friends and colleagues! In November last year, the...
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Apr 18, 20232 min read
Putting The Pieces Together: Job Security at UW
Our last few tl;dr series touched on parts of the MoA that are easily forgotten. Although redundancies, financial exigency, and layoffs...
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Mar 24, 20232 min read
Tl;dr MoA Article 16: Financial Exigency
The MoA is long and tedious—we did the reading so you don’t have to! Our tl;dr (too long; didn't read) series will summarize articles of...
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Mar 2, 20234 min read
Tl;dr MoA Article 15: Program redundancy
The MoA is long and tedious—we did the reading so you don’t have to! Our tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) series will summarize articles of...
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Jan 16, 20233 min read
What is Mediation?
We’re now buckled into a process for Policy 76 which includes a mediation step for any ‘outstanding issues’ that are not resolved at the...
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Nov 22, 20224 min read
That which we call tenure by any other name would smell as sweet?
In this post, we’d like to tackle one of the elephants in the room: tenure. At this point, it is unclear what the status of this...
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Oct 11, 20224 min read
Lecturer vote on ‘Path Forward’
By now we have received many emails and communications about an upcoming vote on the ‘path forward’ for Policy 76. This vote originated...
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Sep 29, 20222 min read
Things That Take Less Time Than P76
Policy 76 on Faculty Appointments has been under revision of some form or other since 2014. Eight years (and counting!) is a long time is...
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Sep 29, 20221 min read
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