Date Approved by LUFA Executive: 13 November 2020 Collegial Governance: What You Need to Know For centuries, universities have been run by an alliance of stakeholders comprised of faculty, staff, students, administrators, and community representatives operating on the basis of transparency, trust, and inclusion. In contemporary systems of shared governance, decision-making authority and responsibility for …
Date Approved by LUFA Executive: 13 November, 2020 Contract Lecturer issues – What you need to know In 2018, researchers from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and CUPE collected data from 78 universities on contract faculty issues and produced a report entitled Contract U : contract faculty at Canadian universities. No Lakehead data appears …
What are LUFA’s bargaining priorities? LUFA’s priorities are: 1) reject proposed short-term layoff provisions; 2) improve our pension plan; 3) update the equity, diversity, and inclusiveness policy; 4) improve working conditions for contract lecturers; 5) preserve and enhance collegial governance; 6) improve policy and regulation regarding conflict of interest; and 7) other measures to ensure …
Dear Members of the Lakehead University Faculty Association: The Association and the Board of Governors met on Wednesday November 11, 2020 for a second day of mediated talks. You will recall that the parties had originally agreed to two days of mediation on all issues, with the proviso that talks would focus initially on the …