News
September 19, 2023
GLU and University Consider Ways to Accelerate Pace of Bargaining
After a two-month summer break, the GLU negotiating team met with the University of Calgary team for its fifth bargaining session in August. The union team was joined for the first time by the GSA AVP Labour/GLU Chair, Hunter Yaworski. Big thanks to former team member Michael Connolly, who has moved on to pursue a PhD at another university after completing his Masters at the U of C.
While the teams made a little progress on the outstanding issues during the two-day session, both teams expressed a desire to accelerate the pace of bargaining.
January 30, 2023
University of Lethbridge bargaining update #7
Bargaining Update: It’s all on the table
The ULGSA Bargaining Team held its sixth bargaining session with the University of Lethbridge on January 10th-12th. As we reported during our last bargaining session, the union had agreed to table its monetary demands for this session in the hopes of reaching an agreement. By the end of the first day, we presented our demands.
January 30, 2023
University of Calgary - Graduate Assistant Bargaining Begins on a Sour Note
Graduate Assistant Bargaining Begins on a Sour Note
The GSA Negotiating Team met with the University of Calgary Team to begin bargaining for a new Collective Agreement on 23-24 January. This first meeting, which began with an exchange of non-monetary proposals, was the culmination of several months of hard work by the Union Team and the GSA Graduate Labour Union / Labour Relations Committee (LRC).