President's Welcome Back Message
Welcome to another Academic Year, which is also a very pivotal year for all of us.
Our current Collective Agreement expires September 30th and the Bargaining Team is doing their best to have a new C.A. in place for October 1st. In addition to the standard items like salary and benefits, we now have the Joint Workload Taskforce Report, which supports and clearly justifies the need to revise and update the formulas and methods for workload assignments (like the SWF), plus adding more Librarians and Counsellors to our Colleges.
For our Partial Load colleagues, there are several important changes required to eliminate precarious elements within the C.A. and to enable full participation in our Local.
Our first bargaining campaign activity, in support of our Bargaining Team (BT) during negotiations this Monday/Tuesday Sept. 9th & 10th. We encourage everyone to support the following initities. it is important to show the college we are supporting our bargaining team.
Actions
We encourage everyone to wear purple or yellow.
Doon Union Office Drop In: Our office will be open all day on Monday, September 9th in Room 1E01, so drop on by.
Town Hall meeting via Zoom on Thursday, September 12th @ 17:30 to 19:00 hrs with our BT, to discuss the WTF (Workload Task Force) Report and how it directly links to our Demands. Make sure to register for the town hall.
To ensure that everyone has all of the information available and can fully participate in upcoming events, our Local will be enhancing our presence on social media, plus our website; more details to come.
You may already have received a text message, with fast responses to your replies, which has been added for another quick communication option.
If you haven’t officially signed up to be a full member in good standing, through our website on-line application, please do so. If you haven’t been receiving any communications to your private email or mobile phone, please send us a note through Letterbox237@gmail.com .
We have been working on assisting several colleagues at the end of August, due to last minute changes in Partial Load contracts and SWF’s. If you haven’t contacted us yet for assistance, please do so as soon as you can and we will provide you with direction and options.
Some of you may have heard that the ballots will finally be counted as per the OLRB (Ontario Labour Relations Board), and this could lead to Union Certification for our Part-Time and Sessional colleagues. We don’t have a date for this yet, but even after it is done, we will not begin negotiations for their first contract till our new CA is finalized.
We wish all of you a good semester and look forward to working together in achieving critical improvements in our working conditions going forward.
In solidarity,
Leopold
President-Local 237
Full-Time Members
Workload and SWFs
Your SWF or Standard Workload Form is a document that is used to calculate and credit faculty for teaching and related activities each term. The courses, sections should all match your timetable. Looking at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) portion of the website for some common questions related to workload.
The maximum SWF total workload hours per week per professor is 44 hours.
Anything not listed on the SWF is voluntary and is not required as part of your employment. This includes activities such as open houses, all faculty mandatory meetings, orientations, APRs and MPRs.
If you are assigned work by a supervisor, it should be recognized on a SWF.
Overtime is completely voluntary, if you don't want to work overtime, you don't have to agree to it.
Working within our 44 hours allows for more teaching positions or more hours for part-time, sessional and partial-load faculty.
Step Calculator
All new partial-load and full-time faculty follow the same initial salary step calculation formula.
This is outlined in the collective agreement in the "Job Classification Plans For Position in the Academic Bargaining Unit.
The initial salary step is calculated based on the individual’s relevant educational and work experience.
Faculty can use this Initial Salary Step Calculator to verfy they are on the correct step of the salary grid.
If you would like your initial salary step calculation reviewed by an officer of the local, please email letterbox237@gmail.com
Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
For more information on the EFAP Program, click the button below:
