The Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) reached a tentative settlement with the university for the 2014-17 collective agreement on July 27, according to Carleton media relations officer Steven Reid.
“The details of the bargaining table will be released after a steering committee . . . and the details will be sent to our members first. We were under provincial conciliation so details cannot be released at this time,” said Kimberly Benoit, the executive director of CUASA.
“We have a tentative settlement but not all members are aware of the details yet,” she continued.
CUASA, which represents 850 faculty, professional librarians, and instructors, entered into the bargaining process on July 9 with the hope of addressing issues raised in the CUASA bargaining survey and amongst the CUASA council in regards to the “unit standards” for tenure, promotion, grievance issues/processes, language and privacy.
“Unit standards” are the process by which a unionized group is free to interpret what it wants in terms of hiring and promoting its faculty.
More details about the settlement will be available after the ratification votes are scheduled and completed by members of the bargaining unit and the university, Reid said.
During the conciliation process, either party may request a provincially appointed conciliator to act as a mediator to the discussions. The conciliator “attempts to assist the parties by suggesting possible areas of compromise, bringing a different point of view, clarifying issues and using other techniques designed to bring the parties closer together,” according to an email sent to Carleton students from the university.
This tentative settlement comes after 10 full-day bargaining sessions scheduled by the university throughout mid-July with the union.
—files from Talia Di Domenico
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