Union & Employer Proposals
Union
Employer
WAGES
- 10% increase over 2 years
- Remove lowest steps from salary grid, and add 2 steps to the top of the salary grid
- 8% increase over 4 years
- Add 1 step to the top of the salary grid (for faculty with Doctorate only)
WORKLOAD: Partial-Load Professors
- Automatic enrollment into the Registry until they withdraw
- Paid time for exam week and mandatory training
- Work assignment based on seniority, including when sections are cancelled
- Faculty must have 10 service credits to be eligible for Registry
- Hiring priority is limited to courses taught in last 4 years, and will be lost after 1 year out of partial-load status
- Courses with asynchronous delivery will receive no TCH
WORKLOAD: Full-Time Professors
- More time for courses with online components (including multimodal)
- More time for evaluation /feedback
- SWF limited to 40h/week
- Increase time for complementary functions from 6h to 8h per week
- No extra time for online or multi-modal delivery
- Less time for “Assisted” evaluation
- No TCH for courses with asynchronous components (including multi-modal)
- Increase teaching assignment maxima to 22 TCH per week for non-postsecondary faculty
WORKLOAD: Counsellors & Librarians
- Overtime (0.01% of salary) for any work beyond 35 h/wk
- Workload dispute resolution mechanism
- Minimum staffing ratios for counsellors and librarians
- Overtime (0.0083% of salary) for assigned work beyond 35 h/wk
- No mechanism for workload dispute resolution
- Circumvent sessional rollover language
VACATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS
- Increase number of PD days from 10 days to 15 days
- Maintain requirement of a period of at least 5-consecutive days for PD
- Redefine “academic year” from 10 to 12 months, which puts faculty’s 43- day block of vacation and 11th month pay at risk
- Eliminate existing 5 consecutive day PD period
You can check both sets of proposals at www.collegefaculty.org