Our last three-year agreement expired on June 30, 2014. As per Article 6 of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA), UTFA’s President and I met with the Administration in January of 2014 to formally announce our intention to bargain a new settlement. Since the last AGM, we have met with the Administration to engage in bilateral negotiations on a dozen occasions.
In the winter of 2014, UTFA surveyed its membership on concerns for the next round of salary, benefits, pensions and workload bargaining under the terms of Article 6 of the Memorandum of Agreement. The survey’s high response rate helped us determine the proposals that featured in the bargaining platform presented to UTFA Council in March 2014.
To the Editor:
As most of you know, UTFA and the University administration formally negotiate a limited range of terms and conditions of employment on behalf of faculty and librarians at the University, within the framework of the existing Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) prescribing UTFA’s role in representing you. The items currently negotiable are salaries, benefits, pensions, and workload. Our last agreement expired on June 30, 2014. UTFA and the University administration are currently in negotiations but as of yet we do not have a new agreement.
The 2010 arbitration award created a Joint Benefit Committee with three representatives from the University administration and three from UTFA.