The essence of collective bargaining is the idea that workers are in a better position to negotiate improvements to their working conditions collectively than if they attempted to do so on their own. Protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, collective bargaining recognizes our right to work together to address issues in our workplace…
The negotiations teams met for a half day on Monday and for a full day on Tuesday for our last scheduled days of direct negotiations. On Monday, our employer made it clear that they are willing and able to negotiate on issues which they also recognize as a priority so long as the issue does not…
Over the last 10 months, the UPEI Faculty Association has demonstrated a willingness to move from our bargaining positions if there was a reasonable opportunity to address it’s members’ significant concerns. For example, during conciliation we dropped half of our proposals, both to focus on your top priorities and in the hope that our willingness…
Now that you’ve had a chance to absorb the results from our strike vote, we wanted to dive into them a bit more to put them in perspective. 85% of FA members participated in the recent strike vote with 83% of participants voting to provide the UPEIFA Executive Committee and Negotiations Team with a strong…