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Après plus de deux années de négociation, les membres de l'University of Prince Edward Island Faculty Association ont voté, le 13 février dernier, en faveur de la ratification de leur première convention collective conclue avec l'université. Après le vote, le […]

There were some important income tax changes proposed in the Feb. 18, 2003 federal budget. Among the more significant tax measures affecting individuals for the 2003 filing season were the following: Increasing the RRSP contribution limit to $14,500 for 2003, […]

William Tordoff. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002; 352 pp; ISBN: 0-253-21545-5; paper $22.95 US. This new updated edition provides comprehensive coverage of Africa's contemporary politics and is set in a clear historical context, with a wealth of illustrative […]

Gerald W. Hankins. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2003; 216 pp; ISBN: 0-88864-405-1; paper $24.95 CA. Gary McPherson contracted life-threatening polio during the epidemic of 1955 which left him a quadriplegic. He retains just enough coarse movement in his […]

Steal this University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement Benjamin Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh & Kevin Mattson, eds. New York & London: Routledge, 2003; 265 pp; ISBN: O-415-93484-2; paper $28.95 CA. Faculty unionization in the United […]

In the late 1990s the anti-sweatshop movement broke out into a mass movement on college campuses across the United States. Linked to labour, consumer, faith-based and other groups, the movement, now with more than 200 campus chapters, is the most […]

Un article paru récemment dans The Chronicle of Higher Education portait sur le " système de gouvernance inhabituel " en place à l'Université de Cambridge. Dans cet établissement, la responsabilité de la prise de décisions sur les questions universitaires et […]

Faculty members at Acadia University won substantial gains through their 14-day strike which ended on March 8, after reaching a tentative agreement on the preceding weekend. The contract was ratified on March 10 with more than 90 per cent voting […]

The Kwantlen University College administration has backed away from its threat to override its collective agreement with the College Institute Educators' Association of B.C. Using the controversial provincial legislation, the Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act, Kwantlen announced in January […]

Faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University reached a tentative agreement with the university March 4, following two days in conciliation. The two sides have agreed on a four-year deal, with 3 per cent salary increases in each year of the […]

Adjunct academic staff employed at Queen's University have ratified their first collective agreement. The three-year deal was concluded after six months of negotiations. Queen's University Faculty Association member services officer Colin Galinski says "the settlement significantly improves the working conditions, […]

The Association of Professors of Bishop's University set a strike deadline for 12:01 a.m. on Monday, March 15, after 10 months of negotiations for its full-time and part-time bargaining units. In February, members of both units voted more than 86 […]