MESSAGE TO ADJUNCT 1'S

The Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) is now the certified bargaining agent for Adjunct 1’s at Queen’s University (as of May 2^nd, 2003). Please see the Bargaining Unit Description at attached below. Contact the QUFA office if you are uncertain if you belong to the new union.

The next step is to negotiate a first collective agreement with the University Administration. Negotiating the agreement will take several months and may not be completed and ratified until the Winter term, 2004. Once we have a new collective agreement in place, the terms and conditions of employment will be governed by that agreement. In the meantime, teaching assignments and contracts for the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter terms obviously need to be determined. You can negotiate and sign your contract letter as before. The terms and conditions of your employment may change when the new collective agreement is in place. You can ask QUFA now for advice and assistance with determining the terms of your appointment and employment at Queen’s. All queries are strictly confidential.

Work has begun on shaping an organization and collective agreement for Adjunct 1’s at Queen’s. Some of the provisions in the existing collective agreement for full-time faculty and continuing and term adjuncts may carry over into the agreement for Adjunct 1s. We will send out a survey in the fall to gather opinion on compensation, benefits and working conditions and organize unit-by-unit meetings. We are setting up an Adjunct 1 Advisory Committee and welcome your input and assistance. We need Adjunct 1 representatives for QUFA Council, Executive and the bargaining team.  Please contact the QUFA office if you have any questions or concerns or can help in any way.

 CONTACT QUFA DURING BUSINESS HOURS AT:

Phone (613) 533-2151 and 533-3033
E-Mail qufa2@post.queensu.ca
Room 120, Old Medical Bldg., Queen's University

All academic staff employed by the employer in the Province of Ontario who, individually or jointly, are responsible for instruction and evaluation in degree-credit courses, for pay, and who are persons coming within the definition of members of the adjunct academic staff, Group 1, as set out in the June 23, 1994 "Statement on Adjunct Academic Staff and Academic Assistants", save and except

a)    employees covered by subsisting collective agreements;

b)    voting members of the Board of Trustees;

c)    Associate Deans and persons above that rank, including without limitation the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Vice-Principals, Associate Vice-Principals, Deans, Vice-Deans; and persons providing confidential assistance in respect of labour relations to persons in one or more of those positions; and anyone who is appointed to act in those positions;

d)    the University Librarian and the Associate University Librarian;

e)    the University Archivist;

f)    physicians with or without academic rank to whom the Ontario Medical Association Dues Act, applies;

g)    persons, including visiting fellows, employed by another university, institution, firm or government agency, and whose duties at Queen's University are part of their employment at their home university, institution, firm or government agency.

h)    post-doctoral fellows and research fellows whose remuneration for teaching at Queen's University is from an external source;

i)    teaching assistants;

j)    academic assistants as defined in the June 23, 1994 "Statement of Adjunct Academic Staff and Academic Assistants;

k)    persons registered as students at Queen's University at Kingston who teach in the discipline in which they are registered;

l)    persons whose appointments are exclusively for work outside of the Province of Ontario, including persons teaching at the International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle;

m)    the Executive Director and Resident (Academic) Director at the International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle;

n)    those persons who as guest lecturers provide only occasional instruction in a course;

o)    persons engaged in supervision of students unless they are otherwise members of the bargaining unit.

Clarity Note:  Supervision of students in clinical, professional and other academic programs is not sufficient to justify inclusion of a person in the bargaining unit.