Dear Unit 1 Members,

As per our last email, we’re preparing a fulsome package for you and your colleagues to review for the ratification of this Collective Agreement. However, we wanted to share a summary of information that may help you understand this Tentative Agreement in context.

The ratification vote will take place online within the coming weeks.

Context and historic bargaining of the Unit 1 Bargaining Team

We have attached a brief summary of the gains made in this round of bargaining.

To be clear: there are no concessions. A concession is when rights or benefits are removed or lost from the collective agreement.

As stated above, more detailed information is being prepared to distribute to the membership before the ratification vote.

Some highlights include:

• Earlier TA assignments and AODs

• Premium pay for choosing working over the holidays (additional $10/hr)

• Improved paid sick leave and pregnancy/parental leave

• Four weeks paid gender affirmation leave

• Access to additional Priority Terms

• Access to paid pedagogical training for undergrad TAs

• Mental health coverage

• An emergency fund

Unit 1 Summary of wage increases
across the last three collective agreements

For comparison, here are the tentative settlement summaries for 2013, 2016, and 2019

If you’re curious, you can also view the Unit 2 summary of gains.

Although we hoped to achieve a salary increase in line with inflation and the cost of living, and we still believe you deserve better, both of these collective agreements contain an historic number of gains for this local, and across our sector. We worked together and moved in solidarity to achieve these results.

In Solidarity,
The Unit 1 Bargaining Team