Volume 26, No. 18             Editor: Mark Langer            June, 1996.



BINDING ARBITRATION ACHIEVED



STRIKE MANDATE VOTE CANCELLED.



At 5 am on June 1, after intensive discussions between CUASA and

management, a Memorandum of Agreement was initialed between CUASA and the

employer. This Memorandum was ratified by the Executive Committee of the

Board of Governors on June 3. The Memorandum provides for final offer

selection binding arbitration on financial issues. If agreement is

achieved before arbitration, the entire settlement will be submitted to

CUASA members for ratification. If we proceed to arbitration,

non-financial issues will be presented for ratification before

arbitration. Lockout or strike has been averted. 



While this newsletter reproduces the entire text of this Memorandum, our

members should view this information in light of what has been won and

what has been lost. Despite the employer's strategy of fast-tracking

toward a lock out as a way of imposing a "made in Carleton solution" with

compensation reductions that were the most onerous proposed by any

university in the country, CUASA and the management are now headed toward

impartial resolution of their outstanding differences. Now that

conciliation cannot lead to lockout, the conciliation process offers at

least some possibility for further negotiation. 



CUASA was successful in taking such employer demands as the right to

suspend without pay off the table. The parties agreed to establish a

parity committee to review the upper limit for salaries of Associate

Professors. Nevertheless, concessions were made in order to achieve a

settlement in non-money matters together with arbitration on financial

issues. These includes the following provisions: 



* Payment of this year's May and June CDIs which was to have been made on

June 27, will depend on a final settlement of financial issues. 



* Mandatory retirement at age 65 has been reinstituted.



* Reduced time for long service employees will now only be available as an

early retirement option. Short-term reduced time employees (those on

reduced time for such reasons as research release) will have pensions

calculated on the basis of actual, rather than nominal salary. 



In order to move us to arbitration the above will be implemented immediately. These

concessions reflect CUASA's commitment to a peaceful resolution of differences and our

belief that binding arbitration is in the best interests of the institution.



The following is the complete text of the memorandum.



MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN CUASA AND CARLETON UNIVERSITY





1. The parties agree to all issues previously agreed at the bargaining table and to the Employer

proposals  of January 22, 1996 with respect to Article 9.10, 13.7, 40.8,

Appendix E (standard line) and the proposal of May 31, 1996 with respect to

a parity committee on the Associate Professor upper limit. Payment of the

CDI shall not be implemented prior to the arbitration award.



2.  The parties agree to submit to arbitration remaining issues with respect

to scale, days of unpaid leave, CDI, and benefits only. 



3.  The form of arbitration shall be total package final offer selection by a

single arbitrator to be named by the parties.



4.  The parties shall agree to a list of arbitrators and choose an arbitrator

by June 7. The arbitrator shall be available for hearings between the date

of conciliation and the end of July, 1996.



5. The selection of the final offer shall be consistent with the Arbitrator's

assessment of ability to pay.



6. At the end of conciliation, tile parties shall simultaneously exchange

final offers.



7. Final offers need not bear any relation to the positions of the parties

during conciliation.



8. The arbitration hearing shall be limited to one day for each of the

parties to present positions and one-half day each for rebuttal.



9. CUASA agrees to cancel its advance poll with respect to a strike mandate

which would have been held on May 31, 1996.



10. The parties agree to a communications blackout with respect to this Memorandum of Agreement until

ratification by the Employer.



11. The Employer bargaining team will seek ratification by midnight on

June 3, 1996. 



12. CUASA agrees that the Employer may implement its proposals of January

22, 1996 with respect to Articles 9.10, 13.7, 40.8, Appendix E (standard

line) prior to ratification of a new collective agreement.