Please Note: The QUFA Office will be closed from December 21st to January 1st inclusive.
Take Action
- Background to Queen's ConfidenceLine Service: Read more about QUFA's concerns about the new anonymous 'tip line'
- Sign the open letter to University & College Presidents to protest casualization of academic work in honour of Fair Employment Week
- We Teach Ontario: An Ontario Confederation of Faculty Associations campaign to promote the connection between teaching and research in Ontario Universities - learn more and take action here
- Canada's Past Matters: A Canadian Association of University Teachers campaign to draw attention to changes in Federal policies regarding Canada's cultural heritage - learn more and take action here
- Get Science Right!: A Canadian Association of University Teachers campaign to urge the Federal Government to restore funding for basic research and research in the public interest - learn more and take action here
- Join QUFA - complete the Membership Form and plan to attend our Fall General Meeting, Dec 17 at 1:15pm, Ellis Hall Auditorium
Who we are
QUFA is the certified bargaining agent for approximately 1200 faculty, librarians, and archivists at Queen's University. QUFA advances the interests of its Members by promoting equity in recruitment and hiring, by fostering a positive work environment free of discrimination and interference, and by providing appropriate representation for all Members.
Announcements
- Professor Emeritus John Holmes (Queen's Geography and long-serving QUFA Volunteer) has been named the 2014 CAUT Distinguished Academic. Congratulations John!
- Notice of Meeting and Constitutional Amendments for the QUFA Fall General Meeting posted here. QUFA Members, please plan to attend Dec. 17 at 1:15pm, Ellis Hall Auditorium.
- QUFA Voices: November Issue
- QUFA Workload Survey #1 - Please Respond
- The Ontario Municipal Board has decided in favour of the Queen's Alma Mater Society and the Sydenham District Association regarding Kingston's electoral boundaries. The full decision is here. The AMS thanks QUFA for the donation to their legal costs of $3000.
- Equity & Diversity Forum: Perpetual Crisis? CAUT Conference, 7-9 February, Toronto - all welcome!
- Future U: Creating the Universities We Want OCUFA Conference, 27-28 February, Toronto - all welcome!
- QUFA Urges the Senate to Defeat Bill C-377
- QUFA Council Passes Motion of Support for Fair Employment Week and Adjunct Rights
- University of Victoria Faculty Association Launches Certification Drive. Read more about why here
- Cory Laverty (Head, Education Library) has been awarded an OCUFA Academic Librarianship Award - Congratulations Cory!
Union News
- OCUFA Report, November 27, 2013 - Helping faculty hold administrators to account
- OCUFA Report, November 20, 2013 - Laurier contract faculty approve strike mandate
- OCUFA Report, November 13, 2013 - Contract faculty at Laurier to hold strike vote
- OCUFA Report, November 6, 2013 - Extension of solvency relief for Ontario Universities announced
- OCUFA Report, October 23, 2013 - Settlement ratified at St. Jerome’s; Conciliation at Brescia, UOIT, and Laurier
- OCUFA Report, October 23, 2013 - OCUFA at Queen’s Park today advocating for pensions, contract faculty, and teacher education funding
- OCUFA Report, October 16, 2013 - OCUFA’s action plan on faculty pensions
- OCUFA Report, October 9, 2013 - Greyson and Loubani released from Egyptian prison
- Senate Faculty Caucus - Senate Passes Procedures for Temporary Suspension of Admissions (28 May 2013)
- Real Academic Planning - Should Queen’s Dissolve the Senate Committee on Creative Arts and Public Lectures? (16 May 2013)
- Real Academic Planning - Mark Jones, Faculty Attrition, Administrative Expansion (30 April 2013)
