Carleton’s undergraduate and graduate students will not share a health plan for the upcoming school year, after offers between their representing organizations were exchanged but rejected at the beginning of August, according to the associations’ presidents.
The presidents from both the Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) and the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) said a joint health plan would have saved money for students.
Neither offers were made public.
According to the associations’ websites, CUSA’s health plan for the coming year will cost $158, and the GSA’s will cost $178.
CUSA left the joint health plan they had with the GSA in the summer of 2012 because they said they felt they could save students money. The GSA took legal action against CUSA following the undergraduate union’s departure.
MacNeil said the GSA will be proceeding to mediation to end the ongoing discussion on whether CUSA’s departure breached the agreement.
Mediation aims to help both parties settle a dispute before a civil suit goes to trial.
“If nothing can be reached through mediation that is amenable to both sides, it will proceed to discovery . . . and then we’d go to litigation,” MacNeil said.
