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Article 30: Vacations, Holidays and Leaves
I have advocated for changes in the Parental Leave clauses within the Collective Agreement. With the current negotiations we need to achieve harmonization of leaves in Article 30.08b related to paternity and adoption leave. As it stands now, women who give birth have longer leaves than people who adopt. Is there merit in the difference?
Highly Flawed
The following letter to the editor ran in The Chronicle Herald on Oct 22, in response to an opinion piece that said that Dalhousie University’s pension plan was too rich for the taxpayers to shoulder. Bill Tufts´ Oct. 15 opinion piece, “Dalhousie pension shortfall: Taxpayers must demand relief,” was highly flawed with factual errors, much… [read more]
Environmentally Sustainable or Pay-as-you-Go?
Parking was in danger of becoming a four-letter word in early September as the university administration ignored the fact that the price and availability of parking on campus is a benefit negotiated in the Dalhousie Faculty Association’s collective agreement, which is currently under negotiation. Now, the other shoe has dropped with the release of a draft of the Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan at the end of September. Read more
Claire Campbell speaks about … academic entrepreneurship
Every year we’re required to complete an annual report: classes taught, publications – uh – published, that sort of thing. In the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, there’s a final section titled “Workload” that asks us to calculate the “Approximate per cent of year’s activity working time (eleven months)” for teaching, research, and service. That should be easy: we’re hired for 40/40/20, right? Well, this year I refused to complete this section of the report. Click on Claire’s name to read more and write a comment.
