It has been more than 600 days since the faculty association initiated bargaining and nearly 1.5 years since the last collective agreement expired.
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In a recent bad faith bargaining complaint, the University of Alberta’s faculty association claims that the university isn’t meaningfully engaging in contract negotiations, hindered by the provincial government.
If approved, these workers will have their own collective agreement, even while they help the faculty negotiation their collective agreement.
The last time they tried this, they ended up having to go on strike, and they claimed that one of the vice-presidents was intimidating them.
Most of the decrease occurred at University of Alberta, which accounted for 3 out of every 4 losses.
The UCP government issued their 5th provincial budget last week, and postsecondary students are getting dumped on. Again.
Frances Widdowson, who became a free speech advocate after being fired from Mount Royal University in 2022, spoke at the University of Lethbridge recently.
Compared to the other 9 provinces in Canada, Alberta saw the smallest increase in the number of university-educated workers employed in the province, since the UCP gained power.
Plus, we’re spending less now than we were 10 years ago, the second worst performance in the country.
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New AB budget continues UCP war on students
The UCP government issued their 4th provincial budget last week, and postsecondary students are getting dumped on. Again.