Contract_Negotiation

Number	Week Ending	Highlights
4	March 19, 1999	Negotiations in the Home Stretch: Resolution or Arbitration?
3	March 5, 1999	April 1 is Approaching: Will the DRM Work?
2	February 12, 1999	"Merit" "Timelines" "Closure" "Grievance and Discipline"
1	January 29, 1999	"Final Offer Selection" "Grievance (Article 15)" "Closure of a Unit or Program (Article 24)" "Adjuncts"

Number	Week Ending	Highlights
30	November 29, 1996	Last Update before Dec. 5, QUFA's Commitment, articles completed (tenure, appointments, workload for librarians and archivists, harrasment), Hard issues remain (Compensation and DRM, program/unit closure, financial exigency leading to layoffs), Board of Trustees
29	November 22, 1996	Administration responds on DRM, moving expenses, workload, harrasment, department heads, financial exigency
28	November 8, 1996	Biggest crowd ever, CAUT Defence Fund motion passed, Joint Consultative Committee, academic administrators, tenure, renewal and promotion, adjunct appointments, new proposals promised.
27	October 25, 1996	Administration doubts QUFA is serious, compensation, report on other matters, working to deadline, Fall General Meeting
26	October 18, 1996	Dispute Resolution, completion date, other news Negotiation Support, CAUT Defense Fund, Fall General Meeting
25	October 11, 1996	equity, financial exigency, arbitration resolved
24	October 4, 1996	agreement articles completed, articles tabled and under discussion, compensation principles
23	September 20, 1996	Negotiation Slowing, promotion and tenure, workload standards, working conditions, compensation and benefits, QUFA Website
22	September 13, 1996	Controversial Issues Unresolved, official file, evaluations, intellectual property, working conditions, leave, workload, promotions and tenure, employment equity
21	August 16, 1996	negotiations resume, correspondence and information, health, safety and security, personnel files, evaluation, financial exigency, promotion and tenure
20	June 28, 1996	strategy planning, workshop held, upcoming issues
19	June14, 1996	issues to be tabled, conflict of interest, financial exigency, programme closure
18	June 7, 1996	professional expense retained, grievance, discipline, personnel files
17	May 31, 1996	new team member, fraud & misconduct, conflict of interest, tenure & promotion
16	May 24, 1996	recognition, legal liability, greivance & discipline, intellectual property, financial exigency, fraud & misconduct, response to Pension Fund Proposal
15	May 17, 1996	several proposals tabled, financial exigency - CAUT model, program redundancy, intellectual property, dispute resolution on compensation
14	May 3, 1996	new team member, adjuncts in bargaining unit, academic responsibilities, grievance
13	April 19, 1996	pension surplus, association rights, working conditions, administrative stipends, discipline
12	April 12, 1996	discipline, grievance, academic responsibilities, working conditions freeze
11	April 5, 1996	pension surplus, discipline, association rights, other articles pending
10	March 29, 1996	voluntary options costs, exit from social contract, pension forum, discipline grievance
9	March 15, 1996	responsibilities, grievance, discipline, letter re pension surplus
8	March 8, 1996	discipline, grievance, council of representatives request
7	March 1, 1996	non-discrimination article, discipline, grievance
6	February 23, 1996	non-discrimination, academic freedom, association rights, grievance, discipline
5	February 16, 1996	O.L.R.B. motion, voluntary options, administrative relationship
4	February 2, 1996	voluntary options, non-discrimination, academic freedom, association rights
3	January 26, 1996	non-discrimination, academic freedom
2	January 19, 1996	voluntary options, compulsory dues check-off, non-discrimination, academic freedom
1	January 12, 1996	attempt to split bargaining unit, first collective agreement, budget and voluntary options, compulsory dues check-off

	Bulletin # 1 October 3, 2001: Negotiations for New Collective Agreement
	Bulletin #2 October 24, 2001: Benefits at Queen's Still the Worst Among Ontario Universities
	Bulletin #3 October 26, 2001: Queen's Salaries Continue to Lag Behind Other Universities and the Private Sector
	Bargaining Update #1 January 2, 2002
	Bargaining Update #2 February 12, 2002
	Bargaining Update April 4, 2002: Tentative Agreement

	Bulletin # 1 October 20, 2000: Understanding Salary: PTR/Merit and Scale
	Bulletin # 2 November 10, 2000: Consultants' Report: Major Benefits at Queen's Worst Among Leading Ontario Universities
	Bulletin #3 November 24, 2000: Setting The Stage For This Year's Bargaining
	Bulletin #4 February 23, 2001: Update on Bargaining

Number	Week Ending	Highlights
3	March 31, 2000
2	March 10, 2000
1	January 14, 2000

	Negotiations Update Week Ending May 12, 2000
	Arbitrator rules on Queen's - Faculty Final Offer Selection INSTRUCTIONS: To download a copy of this PDF file, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you are a member of Queen's and you are using a PC, you can obtain Acrobat Reader from the Packman Main Menu. Otherwise, you can download Acrobat Reader for free from the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/download.html Once you have Acrobat Reader installed onto your computer, click on the document (Arbitrator rules .... above) to download.
	QUFA's Brief to Arbitrator, Mr. Morton Mitchnick, for Final Offer Selection (April 18, 2000)

	QUFA Ratification
	Minutes of Settlement
	Vote Results

	Negotiations Updates, from the First Contract negotiations in 1996.
	What Happens After December 5 - an information bulletin.
	Recent Changes to Ontario's Labour Relations Act - notes from a talk given by Sheila McIntyre, Faculty of Law, to "First Contract", our Collective Bargaining Workshop, held on June 26, 1996.

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