» July 19, 2010

Vacation and PD Entitlement

The KFA has been fielding questions about vacation carry over and thought it would be useful to remind all faculty of their vacation and PD entitlement under the collective agreement.

Every regular and non-regular type II faculty member is entitled to 42 paid vacation days and 21 Professional Development days per year.

If the Employer (your Dean, Associate Dean or Operations Manager) requests you to work during a portion of your vacation and you agree, you are entitled to carry over vacation days lost up to a maximum of 20 days.

If the Employer requests you to work during your Professional Development time and you agree, you are entitled to carry over Professional Development time lost up to a maximum of 10 days.

I have copied the relevant collective agreement articles below for you convenience. Please feel free to contact the KFA at local 2200 with any concerns or questions you may have.

12.12 VACATION
(c) If the needs of the Employer demand and if the Employer in writing requests him/her to do so, a faculty member may carry over a portion of his/her annual vacation up to a maximum of twenty (20) working days for use in the following year, either separately or continuously with his/her regular annual vacation, as may be agreed between the faculty member and the administrator responsible. Such carryover of vacation shall occur only with the agreement of the faculty member.

12.01 NORMAL DUTIES
(h) If the needs of the Employer demand and if the Employer in writing requests him/her to do so, a faculty member may carry over a portion of his/her annual professional development time up to a maximum of ten (10) working days for use in the following year, at a time to be agreed upon by the faculty member and the administrator responsible. Such carryover of professional development time shall occur only with the agreement of the faculty member.

» May 4, 2010

Election Results - Annual General Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting on Friday, April 30th, was very well attended. We held elections for a number of important positions and here are the results:

Table Officers
President: Terri Van Steinburg (acclaimed)
Vice-President-Negotiations: Bob Davis (acclaimed)

Executive Representatives
Access: Diane Walsh (elected)
Business: George Broderick (acclaimed)
Humanities: Cecilia Martell (acclaimed)
Status of Women: Shereen Hassan (acclaimed)

Committee Representatives
Disability Management & Rehabilitation: Ann Marie Davison (acclaimed)
Human Rights and International Solidarity: Bill Burgess (acclaimed)
Workplace Health, Safety and Environment: Wade Deisman (acclaimed
Professional and Scholarly Development: Bob Fuhr (acclaimed)
Pension Advisory: Suzanne Pearce (acclaimed)
Education Policy: Balbir Gurm (acclaimed)
Union Counselling: Larissa Petrillo (acclaimed)

Please join us in congratulating the successful candidates and in recognizing the hard work of those who are not continuing.

»  April 9, 2010

KFActs NewsletterKFActs - Spring Edition

The latest edition of KFActs, Kwantlen Faculty Association's newsletter, is now available online.

Headlines from this edition include:
» Mary Griffin & the KFA: Looking forward, looking back
» Scholarly Activity: The State of Understanding At Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Part 2)
» Big differences in pension plans

» April 1, 2010

Bargaining Update

On March 31st, 2010, the Kwantlen Faculty Association sent notification to President David Atkinson that the KFA wishes to commence collective bargaining.

We anticipate that discussions will begin to establish bargaining protocol within the next few weeks.

The current collective agreement remains in full force and effect until the employer, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and the Kwantlen Faculty Association have signed off on a new collective agreement.

Questions? Please contact our office at (604)-599-2200.

» April 1, 2010

Fate of First Nations University rests in the federal government’s hands

CAUT - March 15, 2010
The federal government holds the fate of Canada’s only Aboriginal university – the First Nations University of Canada – and, ultimately, First Nations students’ futures, in its hands, say student and faculty leaders. More...

Sign the open letter to restore full funding to the First Nations University here.

» March 30, 2010

KFA Issues #1: Rank and Advancement

Kwantlen Polytechnic University Senate has struck a Task Force on Academic Rank and Advancement. Knowledge of the issues as they affect our members is important. Thus, the KFA has prepared, for your information, the attached KFA Issues: Bulletin #1.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University Senate has recently struck a Task Force on Academic Rank and Advancement.

Institution-wide discussion of this issue is necessary and appropriate. However, the timing is puzzling considering that the Faculty Association and Employer are preparing for contract negotiations.

Everyone must recognize that faculty members are legally and democratically represented by the KFA. Decisions about our employment conditions will be made only through collective bargaining, and we will resist any efforts outside of bargaining with the KFA to alter our collective agreement.
We are concerned with the agenda of this Task Force, given the minority support for rank that was clearly registered in the recent KFA bargaining survey. Faculty members also made it very clear they wished to maintain an equitable salary structure.   More...

» January 15, 2010

Update on 2010 Bargaining

Bargaining Priorities Approved
On Friday, January 8, 2010, KFA members voted overwhelmingly to approve the bargaining priorities recommended to them by the Working Conditions Committee. More...