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     17 February 1998 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Faculty Negotiations 
     
    
   
   
    
     Faculty contract negotiations are well under way 
     
    
   
   
    
     BY ERYN FAGAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     Faculty contract nego- 
     
     tiations are well under way, 
     
     with face-to-face talks having 
     
     begun on the January 18. As 
     
     the negotiations are still pend- 
     
     ing, very little has been offi- 
     
     cially disclosed yet, and appar- 
     
     ently even most of the faculty 
     
     members are unaware of the 
     
     latest developments. 
     
    

    
     The Economic Benefits 
     
     Committee of the Faculty As- 
     
     sociation conducts a survey of 
     
     the professors around - 
     
     ber, investigating which issues 
     
     are of the greatest import 
     
     among members. The Com- 
     
     mittee then uses this informa- 
     
     tion to formulate a package of 
     
     items which is presented to 
     
     and voted upon by the faculty. 
     
    

    
     Each side of the talks, 
     
     the Faculty and the Board of 
     
     Governors, has a group of rep- 
     
     preees vonvo each consisting of 
     
    

    
     -throwers,” includ- 
     
     — a og a Chic f Negotiator. It is 
     
     here that both sides attempt to 
     
     reach some sort < —— 
     
     upon that original package. Af- 
     
     terwards, the job of the ben- 
     
     efits committee is to relay these 
     
     results back to the faculty and 
     
     to reflect upon them as needed. 
     
    

    
     This process occurs 
     
     every year, as currently the 
     
     option of “multi-year indica- 
     
     tions” is not offered, accord- 
     
     ing to Dr. Lawther, member of 
     
     the benefits committee. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But according to 
     
     Lawther, many faculty feel that 
     
    
   
   
    
     power, which results in an ap- 
     
     proximate loss of 5 to 6 per- 
     
     cent. 
     
    

    
     The second issue con- 
     
     cerns tuition waivers, or the 
     
     lack thereof. This is, essen- 
     
     tially, a reduced tuition for the 
     
     children of faculty to attend 
     
     UPEI. Lawther states that 
     
     this benefit is roughly the norm 
     
     among Canadian universities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “A lotofus would liketo 
     
     have a tuition waiver,” said 
     
     Lawther, “It would be a posi- 
     
     tive thing.” 
     
    

    
     There has been re- 
     
     newed interest in this issue 
     
     with the high faculty turnover 
     
     within the past couple of years 
     
     and the inclusion of new, 
     
     younger professors, he says, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and it could be a “recruitment 
     
     initiative” eee. .A third 
     
     incentive in negotiations, 
     
     typically, would be health plans 
     
     and related benefits. 
     
    

    
     Neil Henry, Vice Presi- 
     
     dent of Finances and Chief 
     
    
   
   
    
     eee for the BOG, de- 
     
     nied any comments at this time 
     
     for the sake of confidentiality 
     
    
   
   
    
     and diplomacy. 
     
    

    
     Dr. Richard Kurial, ex- 
     
     ecutive of the Faculty Asso- 
     
     ciation and Chief 
     
     for that side, also declined com- 
     
     ment on any of the specifics of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the negotiations. He did, how- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ever, affirm that a major i 
     
    
   
   
    
     among the “list of items” would 
     
     be money. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The alternative Federal Budget 
     
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     In its fourth year, some money 
     
    
   
   
    
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     SOT evel, kesping the fed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     eral debt service to a mini- 
     
    
   
   
    
     last year, and wants to cut 
     
     another 2.5 billion this year--a 
     
     lot of this is taken out of social 
     
     programs. We should be 
     
     putting more money into such 
     
     things as post secondary edu- 
     
     cation, while concentrating on 
     
    
   
   
    
     awareness around campus, 
     
    
   
   
    
     into areas where it is 
     
    
   
   
    
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     to the Minister of Finance. 
     
    
   
   
    
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