History of CUPFA Negotiations

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The CUPFA Collective Agreement ended in April 2002. Our employer suggested we begin negotiations in August 2001. The 2001 negotiations do not begin as planned because departures/dismissals meant there was no one identified to start the negotiations. They begin in 2003 but more administrative changes at the University level results in the dismissal of the then current negotiation team in February 2006. A new team is put together by the employer in 2006-2008 with an external hire of a new chief negotiator and team who have no working knowledge of our collective agreement and who are incapable of implementing the collective agreement we have; the employer's new team refuses to adopt a protocol for negotiations, meetings are few, averaging two per month and either do not start on time or are delayed. The new Provost and Vice President Academic as well as the new President for the University are asked to step down, the first departs in June of 2007 and the President in November 2007. Numerous final offers are presented by the employer but the employer's negotiation team rejects and reverses understandings the employer had with CUPFA's negotiation team that were negotiated with the employer's previous negotiating team. After six years and no resolution and no Agreement the CUPFA membership in a secret ballot votes 97% for an unlimited strike mandate on October 21, 2007.

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