Please join us in celebrating the book release of Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong, by Musqueam Elder Larry Grant and co-author Scott Steedman, on Tuesday, September 29, at the Capilano Centre for Performing Arts.

Dear colleagues,

Your bargaining committee met the administration on Friday, 13 February, for 3 hours. We worked on 5 CFA proposals and 3 from the administration, and reached tentative agreement on two minor proposals. However, the administration is still unwilling to talk about any CFA proposal that it sees as “cost items”—the ones that would affect its budget.

One surprise on Friday was that the administration’s committee had not booked negotiation dates beyond 13 February. This caught our committee by surprise, since our committee had booked every second Friday from now through June. The good news is that we are working with the administration to schedule weekly meetings starting on 27 March and going to the end of June. The CFA is awaiting admin's agreement to this schedule.

The next scheduled meeting is on Friday, 27 March, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dear members, 

Last Friday, 30 January we (your bargaining team) met with the administration’s bargaining team for the first time since we initially exchanged proposals on 16 January. 

In this meeting we began to set the tone for bargaining on “non-monetary” proposals (see below for what that means). It was a positive meeting, but still exploratory. We have only just begun to get into the substance of the proposals. 

We started with responses to the admin team’s questions about CFA proposals. Then we began negotiation of two specific proposals: to (1) establish a joint committee to study our evaluation process and make recommendations for improvements (2) create a “troubleshooter” grievance process that has the potential to dramatically speed up dispute resolution and break the longstanding stalemate on dozens or active disputes between faculty and the administration.

Dear colleagues: Last Friday, your bargaining committee met with the administration to exchange bargaining proposals.

Talks start with a positive tone

As we reviewed with you in general meetings last fall, our proposals are focused on developing and supporting faculty and the University. We made 59 proposals in total. These include paid work for research and scholarship, improved pay and benefits, simplified regularization, improvements to the evaluation process, and a University-wide process for decolonization.

We were pleased with the tenor of the meeting, with the administration explicitly affirming their intention to bargain with us at the table in a collaborative manner as we move toward “substantive bargaining” about specific proposals in the exchanged proposal packages, which will begin on 30 January 2026.