YUFA
Collective Agreement
2009-2012
Article 27
Rights and Privileges
of the Association
27.01
The Employer agrees to provide the Association, free of charge, with the use of suitable serviced office space, with telephone line, the telephone charges to be borne by the Association. The Association shall have the use of the internal University postal service for Association business. External mailing costs of the Association shall be borne by the Association. The Employer shall allow the Association to use the University duplicating services, computing facilities, word processing equipment, and audio-visual equipment on the same basis and at the same rates established by the Employer for University users. The Employer shall provide the Association with suitable meeting rooms as required, free of charge, on the same basis as other voluntary associations within the University. Intercampus travel by YUFA representatives to attend meetings of the Joint Committee on Administration of the Agreement or its Subcommittees, and the Dispute Committee, shall be reimbursed under the terms of Article 18.05.
27.02
The Employer agrees to arrange a courtesy account for the use of the Association. Charges incurred by the Association shall be debited to this account, and the Association agrees to abide by the accounting procedures laid down by the Employer and, at the request of the Employer, to pay interest on any outstanding overdrafts on the courtesy account, at the rate of interest being paid by the University at that time on its own borrowing.
27.03
The Employer agrees to act as paymaster on behalf of the Association in respect of employees of the Association, and shall pay permanent Association employees, shall deduct income tax, Canada Pension Plan, and Employment Insurance Commission payments, and shall issue T-4 slips, charging the amounts back to the Association courtesy account monthly. Such employees shall enjoy normal access to University facilities, parking, identification cards, etc., but are not employees of the University, and will not participate in the benefits, the personnel policies, or the bargaining units of University employees for the duration of this Agreement.
Teaching or Research Time Relief
for Service to the Association
27.04
(a) The Association undertakes that its Officers and members shall organize their activities on behalf of the Association in such a manner as not to interfere with the normal performance of their teaching, professional, and other duties. The Employer agrees that service to the Association by its members is legitimately included within the definition of “service to the University” for purposes of assessing an employee’s workload and evaluating his/her performance. The Employer further undertakes that a reduction in normal teaching or professional load of up to a total of seven (7) full-year courses or equivalent (with the equivalent of one (1) full-year course for librarians being seven (7) hours per week for purposes of this clause only) may be distributed among Officers and/or representatives of the Association, the exact division to be decided by the Association. In addition, each of the two (2) Association nominees to the Dispute Resolution Committee shall be entitled to receive teaching/professional load relief of up to one-third of a normal load for the term of their service on the Committee.
The Employer agrees to provide to the Association one (1) additional full-course or equivalent release in each of 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006 to be distributed among its Officers and/or representatives, said one (1) additional release not to continue beyond 2005-2006.
The Association shall indicate to the Employer by 1 May the names of the individuals designated to receive such course relief for the above purposes.
(b) The Association shall be further entitled to purchase a course-load reduction in the normal teaching load of the President or designated representative of the Association, to a maximum of twenty (20) full-course equivalents, at a rate equal to the higher of the Association Course Director overload rate or the CUPE 3903 Unit Two Course Director rate, plus applicable fringe benefit costs, for the period during which the reduction is taken.
The Association shall inform the Employer as to its wishes in respect of this Article by 1 July 2009 for the contract year 2009-2010 and 1 July 2010 for the contract year 2010-2011 and I July 2011 for the contract year 2011-2012 in order for its entitlement to be valid. Course-load reduction entitlement not used may be carried forward for use the following year.
(c) The Employer undertakes to provide funds when necessary for the replacement of the teaching load of individuals designated in paragraph (a), above, the funds to be made available to the home Faculties of those individuals. The Dean and the individual’s Chairperson, where applicable, shall consult as to the question of a replacement.