The Communiqué – Volume 47, No. 12. June 27, 2025.
In This Issue:
- Please Sign – Faculty Union Solidarity
- Accommodations – Time Sensitive
- Update on Pay Increases under new Collective Agreement
- CUASA Celebrates 50 years!
- Meet Your New Officers!
- Health and Safety Updates
- Member Conduct Policy
- CUASA Summer Office Hours
Faculty Union Solidarity – Time Sensitive
As an act of solidarity, we ask our members consider adding their names to the following petitions today.
Petition to save our programs at Algoma University. OPSEU Algoma University Local 685. Since the Spring 2025 semester, admissions to these five programs were suspended abruptly: Geography, History, Music, Sociology, and Visual Art. Halting these degree programs will adversely affect students already enrolled in these programs, will adversely impact our partnerships within the Indigenous community, will reduce the variety of electives for all students, and will impact other degrees and certificates. We call on Algoma University’s Board of Governors and President and Vice-Chancellor to reverse this decision and to reinstate admissions to these programs. For more information, you can visit our union site.
Letter in Support of AFTA. Atlantic School of Theology Faculty Association. “There is a last minute chance to avoid a strike, as we have a final conciliation date scheduled on Monday, June 30. But we need the help of our colleagues and friends to send a strong, clear message to AST’s administration to enter conciliation with a fair and equitable offer that recognizes the invaluable contributions of ASTFA members and to avert a strike.”
Accommodations
As the summer term is underway, CUASA would like to remind you to check your “accommodations letter” from your Dean, to know when you must request an accommodation for the next academic year.
Some members might be required to submit an updated functional ability form (FAF) to Human Resources.
Please note, Carleton has implemented three new Functional Ability Forms. Please review these forms and ensure you are using the most up to date form when requesting or updating your accommodation needs.
If you require any assistance with your accommodation or have questions and/or concerns, please reach out to CUASA at [email protected].
Update on Pay Increases under new Collective Agreement
CUASA has received confirmation from the Deputy Provost’s Office that pay increases under the new Collective Agreement will be implemented on the mid-July pay (July 14). This will include the across-the-board (ATB) and career development increment (CDI) increases for 2024 and 2025. Members eligible for those increases will receive retroactive payments to May 1, 2024, and May 1, 2025, respectively. Nominal salaries will also be adjusted going forward.
CUASA Celebrates 50 years!
June 18th marked 50 years since CUASA was certified by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) as the bargaining agent of all full-time faculty and professional librarians at Carleton University! Read about CUASA’s longstanding fight for a fair and equitable workplace!
Meet Your New Officers
Over the Summer, we will introduce the new members of CUASA’s Steering Committee, who begin their mandate on July 1, 2025. In this update, we’d like to introduce Xiao Huang, who will be the Chair, Nominations and Elections.
Xiao is a full professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She joined Carleton University in 2002 after working at three private companies for over eight years. Her research focuses on materials and manufacturing development for energy systems, medical devices, gas turbines and other emerging fields. She is the recipient of Carleton University and Faculty of engineering Research awards and an elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She has taught six separate courses in materials, failure and fracture, manufacturing, joining, and coating technologies. She also led a capstone project on developing assisted autonomous vehicles for five years. In addition, she served in and chaired various university, faculty, and department committees, including hiring committee, tenure and promotion committee and capstone committee. Outside of Carleton, she was the chair of materials, manufacturing, and metallurgy committee at ASME Turbo Expo Conferences and served in many external funding committees. She is a strong believer in equal rights for every person.
See Article V of the CUASA Constitution for more information on the role of the Steering Committee.
Health and Safety
In accordance CUASA’s Collective Agreement “Members of the academic staff who use computer equipment to carry out their duties as academics shall be provided with ergonomically suitable furniture to accommodate computer equipment” (Article 20.7 b). Members concerned with the ergonomics of their work area can get more information, access training, and schedule and ergonomic assessment through Carleton Environmental Health and Safety. The Collective Agreement provides up to $50,000 in each year towards providing members with ergonomically suitable furniture to accommodate computer equipment. Questions can be directed to [email protected].
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Carleton has a new system for reporting incidents and injuries on campus. It was launched on June 16 and is compliant with the Ontario health and Safety Act. It includes a system for those members who are “supervisors” that follows the report all the way up to “corrective actions.” Detailed instructions can be found here. The portal is here: https://cu.cgrfoundation.com/incidents?core_schema_id=20&form_action=new
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CUASA would like to thank James Green who is leaving his position on the Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC), his well informed and diligent work will be missed, as will his presentations to Council. Jeff Manthorpe will succeed Jim at the JHSC.
Member Conduct Policy
CUASA is seeking members to volunteer to be on the roster for the Investigatory or Appeals Councils under the Member Conduct Policy. These Councils works to address allegations of harassment between members and meet as needed.
Members who volunteer will be provided training on how to process and investigate complaints, maintain confidentiality, and ensure procedural fairness during the investigatory and appeals processes.
Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in volunteering or if you have any questions.
CUASA Summer Hours
July 4 – July 25 – Monday – Thursday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm. Friday, closed.
August 1 – August 29 – Monday – Thursday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm. Friday, 9:00 am – noon.
Statutory Holidays – Office Closed – July 1, August 4, September 1.
*Please note that our staff work primarily remotely throughout the year – if you require an in person meeting please contact us at [email protected] to make arrangements.
