Dear Unit 2 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 and more details will be shared.

Context and historic bargaining of the Unit 2 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.

Some highlights include:

• Intellectual property rights and very narrow licensing to the University

• Expected enrolment and TA support on job offers

• 14% over life of CA

• Tuition Waiver extended to dependants

• Four weeks paid gender affirmation leave

• Pregnancy leave

• An emergency fund

• A promise to explore the feasibility of a centralized job postings system

Unit 2 Summary of wage increases
across the last three collective agreements

*5.5% in September, 2.5% in January.

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

If you’re curious, you can also view the Unit 1 summary of gains. 

Although we hoped to achieve a salary increase that would close the wage gap between CU and UofO and a TA-Student Ratio, both of these tentative 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 Bargaining Team