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Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) Job Action
by Louise Ripley, Communications Officer & CAUT Defense Fund Trustee for YUFA
AUFA Reaches Tentative Settlement
20 Nov 07 - On 5 November, after a record breaking third visit from the CAUT Defence Fund Flying Pickets, Acadia University's Employer returned to the table and a tentative settlement was reached.
To go to AUFA's Website, click here.
2 Nov 07 - On Friday 19 July, the CAUT Defense Fund Flying Picket was out in full force, visiting the faculty / librarian's strike at Acadia University in beautiful Wolfville, Nova Scotia. We found a classic Maritime welcome - warmth, humour, good food, music, dance, family - children out on the picket lines as well as dogs, and the clear indication that Acadia is out for the long haul, as Maritimers always are. It's too bad their University President Gail Dinter-Gottlieb doesn't have the same culture of standing the gaff, for in the first week of the strike, she took off for China. There were great picket signs about Slow Boats and such. (How does a Torontonian dare to speak as if she knows Maritimers? I spent one precious year at St. FX in Antigonish on sabbatical in 1992-93 and as Tony Bennett sings it, left my heart there).
Their main issues are salary, faculty complement, status of part-time faculty, equity, and benefits. While charging the highest tuition in Canada, Acadia University pays its professors almost the lowest average salary in Canada, six percent below the average for the Maritime region, which is already below the national average.
But Maritime humour rises to almost any challenge. The picket signs were full of humour. Here are two of my personal favourites, one about children and one about dogs: (the pictures all come from the AUFA Website).