Dear QUFA Members please note a few important dates that are coming up in May regarding QUFA Spring General Meeting (SGM) and the election of Executive committee members. May 7 – All candidates for open Executive positions (Treasurer, Secretary, Grievance Chair, JCAA Co-Chair, QULA Representative, Equity Representative, one Member at → Learn More

Dear QUFA Members please note a few important dates that are coming up in May regarding QUFA Spring General Meeting (SGM) and the election of Executive committee members. May 7 – All candidates for open Executive positions (Treasurer, Secretary, Grievance Chair, JCAA Co-Chair, QULA Representative, Equity Representative, one Member at → Learn More

Dear QUFA Members, Attached you’ll find two documents about the new Voluntary Phased Retirement Program negotiated as part of the deal for QUFA to consent to the conversion of the Queen’s Pension Plan to the University Pension Plan. It should be noted that Queen’s has opted to offer this Program → Learn More

Dear Adjunct Faculty Members, Please read these instructions carefully and use the newly updated on-line form, noting that this is now a fillable PDF application. There are also updated guidelines for review.  The link for both the instructions and the application, as well as for COVID-19 updates are listed below.   The fund will be → Learn More

Dear Colleagues, Here is an update on QUFA’s negotiations with the University regarding variances from the Collective Agreement required in response to the Covid-19 pandemic emergency. As I reported in my last missive, QUFA had insisted to the University that talks on a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) related to the → Learn More

Dear QUFA Members please note a few important dates that are coming up in May regarding QUFA Spring General Meeting (SGM) and the election of Executive committee members. May 7 – All candidates for open Executive positions (Treasurer, Secretary, Grievance Chair, JCAA Co-Chair, QULA Representative, Equity Representative, one Member at → Learn More

Dear Colleagues, I hope all of you survived the end of term, such as it was, and more importantly, that you and yours continue in health. (It’s a bit weird, that archaic formulation, suitable for a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, is so acutely of the moment.) → Learn More

Dear Colleagues, I promised that I would write something specific about teaching evaluation and what the Collective Agreement (CA) allows QUFA instructors to do to represent their teaching in the absence of USATs.  Last week I attended a helpful webinar by CTL on developing your own survey in the absence → Learn More

Dear Colleagues, I hope all of you have survived the first week of remote teaching without calamity, that you and your families are well, and that those who were travelling have been able to get home safely.   Here’s an update on matters affecting QUFA members that have emerged over this → Learn More

The first matter I raised with the Principal was the fact that, given that the campus was open, some Members (and of course other Queen’s staff) still had to report to work.  Therefore, the appropriate cleaning of the campus was imperative, and our Members were informing us that such cleaning → Learn More