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Unit 2 Health Spending Account Increased

Mar 032011

The benefits committee is pleased to announce that the Unit 2 Health Spending Account (HSA) entitlement will be increased to $400/year on a trial basis. The increase may be adjusted in the future if the claims activity is higher or lower than expected. The decision to increase the HSA was made after a careful review of Unit 2 HSA claims over the past couple of years, which suggested that there was room to adjust the maximum entitlement without exceeding the Unit 2 benefits budget. The increase is effective immediately.

More information, and claim forms are available here.

In solidarity,
Rebecca Strung, Benefits Officer

Unit 2 Health Spending Account (HSA) Increase

Events, General, News, Unit 2, Unit 2

Feb 152011

The benefits committee is pleased to announce that the Unit 2 Health Spending Account (HSA) entitlement will be increased to $400/year on a trial basis. The increase may be adjusted in the future if the claims activity is higher or lower than expected. The decision to increase the HSA was made after a careful review of Unit 2 HSA claims over the past couple of years, which suggested that there was room to adjust the maximum entitlement without exceeding the Unit 2 benefits budget. The increase is effective immediately.

General Membership Meeting - Feb 2nd - 5:30

News, Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3

Jan 312011

Our next General Membership Meeting will take place:
February 2, 2011
5:30pm
MUMC 1A5 (hospital, 1st floor, by the William’s)

Agenda items will include:
-Bylaw Amendments (carried forward from the last meeting) Articles 3b, 4 & 5.
-Elections – Vice President, Chief Steward Unit 2, Equity Officer, Health & Safety Reps (all faculties)

Food will be available. Childcare reimbursement also available.

Support Sessional Faculty at Trent

News, Unit 2

Jan 202011

CUPE 3908 includes more than 600 workers who work as contract faculty, part-time course instructors, workshop leaders, and markers. Contract faculty already earn less than half the average hourly rate of their similarly qualified full-time colleagues and the gap has widened over the past decade. Because of the difficulties in organizing this part-time, insecure labour force, universities have been able to keep wages low and resist demands for benefits.

Tell Trent University administration these workers don’t deserve a further wage freeze

Contract faculty are excluded from the University’s pension and health benefits plans, their wages don’t increase with experience, and their jobs can disappear at any time. In fact, they aren’t even eligible for the discount on parking passes offered to other groups at Trent!

Contract faculty already provide a massive subsidy to the university through their lower compensation and lack of job security. Requiring them to increase this subsidy through a wage freeze is unfair.

Please help contract faculty at Trent University reach a fair collective agreement settlement that does not include a wage freeze.

Ratification Vote Results, and Package Details

Bargaining, News, Unit 2

Nov 172010

The results of the ratification vote are in, and the union has issued the following statement:

“Unit 2 members were not pleased with the zero compensation increase in the first two years of this agreement. That said, the reality of the current bargaining climate, major advances around pro-rating, and substantial increases to benefits in the 3rd year led Sessional Faculty & Sessional Music Faculty to vote 87% in favour of ratifying this offer.

This difficult round of bargaining has brought the membership even closer together, and we will return to the negotiating table in 3 years as a Unit stronger and more mobilized than ever before.”

Click here to see a summary of the ratified package.

Thank you to everyone who helped out with this very difficult round of bargaining, we would not have been able to achieve what we did without all of your hard work.

In solidarity,
Your Bargaining Team