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Get Involved! We Need You!

We need to know what isn’t working for you, and what to negotiate to improve members’ contracts and working rights.  Join the Unit 1 Bargaining Committee every other Thursday from 10:30am-12pm in Robert Sutherland Hall Room 551, or online (email staff.psac901@gmail.com for Zoom link)  Attend an information session in your department  Participate in focus groups  […]

Bargaining Basics

What’s the collective agreement (CA)? The CA establishes the relationship between Queen’s, the Employer, and its employees who are represented by the agreement (PSAC 901 members in Unit 1: Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Teaching Fellows). It’s the fine print of the contracts (TAF, RAF, or TFFs) we sign to do our work in these […]

Bargaining Wins!

Here at Queen’s Examples of what we’ve won through collective bargaining include: Queen’s-funded bursaries such as a mental health and hardship fund, professional development fund To learn more, visit psac901.org/bursaries 12 hours of paid sick leave Gender affirmation and domestic violence leaves More information on leaves can be found in the CA, Article 23 (psac901.org/unit-1-collective-agreement)

Austerity, austerity . . .

Queen’s says it’s ‘broke’. What does this mean for us? “As university administration has made clear, Queen’s University is facing budgetary pressures based on funding decisions made at the Provincial level among other factors. However, the scale, speed, and unnuanced manner in which these pressures are being handled by university administration needs further justification as […]