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Dear CUPE 4600 Contract Instructors,
Today your union has sent its notice to bargain to the employer.
What does this mean?
Sending our notice to bargain to the employer signifies our intent to enter into bargaining negotiations to update the Collective Agreement, which expires on 31 August 2025. This is the typical process and happens every three years for CUPE 4600.
Bargaining a new Collective Agreement is a time-consuming endeavor and will potentially last several months. During this bargaining process, our Bargaining Team and Carleton’s team will meet to exchange proposals. Our goal is to ultimately come to a tentative agreement that will be ratified by the general membership.
Want to get involved in the bargaining process?
There are plenty of ways for members to be involved in the bargaining round, and the more members are engaged, the better the bargaining outcomes will be.
If you are interested in joining the Unit 2 Bargaining Team, you still have the opportunity to run for the final open position on the Bargaining Team. To learn more or express your interest in serving, contact your Unit 2 VPs Mark and Morgan at vp.unit2@cupe4600.ca
You may also want to get involved with the Unit 2 Bargaining Research Committee, which assists the Bargaining Team in drafting proposals that are presented to the employer. This committee meets every second week, with the meeting link and notice being sent via our CUPE 4600 weekly digest.
Lots more to come!
Sending the employer our intent to bargain is the first, small step in a long process. As we head into bargaining, a major portion of the local’s time and energy will be focused on securing an improved Collective Agreement for the membership. Expect to hear more updates as the process unfolds, and expect to be called to support your bargaining team in a myriad of ways should things become difficult at the negotiations table.
In the coming weeks and months, you will also be hearing about the bargaining process for Teaching Assistants and internally-funded Research Assistants, who make up Unit 1 of our local. Although the bargaining process begins in lockstep, both units of our local bargain on their own timelines, and with their own members’ priorities. As per usual, we will encourage members to stand in solidarity with one another across units. While we are two different units bargaining two different Collective Agreements, we remain one strong union.
In Solidarity,
The CUPE 4600 Executive Board
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