Update on lost pay; retroactive pay increase; dental premiums
Dear Unit 1 members,
Regarding your pay over the next 2 months, the follow points have been confirmed by Human Resources:
- Any reduction of pay for the period of strike will be made once, on the November pay (November 26, 2009);
- The implementation of the employer’s additional $3.00 contribution to Dental Plan will be effective as of the November pay; (don’t worry — CUPE National paid your premiums during the strike);
- The retroactive wage incease payment for the additional 85¢ per hour will be made on the December pay (December 10, 2009).
Please let us know if you experience problems pertaining to any of the above, and we will work to remedy them.
Members should also see the post below this one for more information regarding the Back-to-Work Protocol.
There is a meeting on Tuesday morning at 10am in the strike office, 17 Paradise Road, for members concerned about the negative impact of the Protocol on students and workers, and wishing to discuss next steps.
We lose all ten hours on Nov. 26′s pay, but don’t get the retroactive pay until Dec. 10. No, the university is not being punitive, not in the least. They’re not trying to ensure that we all have one abysmal paycheque four days before most of us have rent cheques due. In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic.
An interesting thing about the Provost’s email of last week: the university’s line is the ten hour reduction reflects the work that we should have done during the strike; yet, they are encouraging professors to reduce tutorials, assignments, exam marking time, etc., for the balance of the term, lest we go over 120 hours. However, if the ten hours reflects the work we should have done during the week of Nov. 2, then why is there a problem for the balance of the term? Why should the balance of our hours be reduced at all? After all, those 10 hours are behind us all. Unless, of course, they aren’t, and the university knows it. Again, though, nothing punitive going on whatsoever. Unless, of course, there is.
berniejt - November 16, 2009 at 10:54 am |
I agree with most of what you say (overall, that we’re getting screwed). But one answer to your question
“Why should the balance of our hours be reduced at all?”
is that instructors will still expect us to have read what was assigned to students that week. Even if we did miss 10 hours (which most really didn’t — and the employer knows it), we’d still be expected to catch up on reading. And that will require slight revisions to the hourly expectations for the rest of term.
Malcontent - November 16, 2009 at 1:21 pm |