Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System: University of Manitoba

 

Name of Individual Responding: Allen W. Yost

 

Title of Individual Responding: Staff Relations Officer

 

2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition

 

Academic staff members employed full-time by the University, including department heads but excluding other academic administrators, medical doctors and dentists (1100 members)

 

Bargaining Agent: The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (U.M.F.A.)

 

Date of First Contract: April 1, 1975 - March 31, 1976

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  13

 

2b. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition

 

All licensed dentists employed full-time by the University, including department heads but excluding other academic administrators (30 members)

 

Bargaining Agent: The University of Manitoba Dental Clinical Staff Association (U.M.D.C.S.A.)

 

Date of First Contract: June 9, 1978 - March 31, 1980

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  11

 

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3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):

 

The current collective agreements with both bargaining agents expire on March 31, 2004.  They provided for across-the-board salary increases of approximately 2%, 2.5% and 2.5% effective April 1 of 2001, 2002 and 2003.  Increments conditional on satisfactory performance typically cost an additional 2.2% per annum.

 

The full text of both collective agreements is available on the Web at:

 

http://www.umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/contracts/index.html

 

Bargaining for contract renewal with U.M.F.A. would typically begin in January, 2004, with the settlement serving as a model for the smaller unit.  The current agreement with U.M.F.A. was settled by an arbitrator following a four-day strike during which approximately half of the bargaining unit members continued to work. 

 

We are discussing a proposal from that union to commence bargaining earlier and to restrict bargaining to a listed subset of the articles in the collective agreement which have financial implications.  We would also agree to refer any issues which remain unresolved six weeks later to arbitration. 

 

4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)

 

     

 

 

5.  Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):

 

Prior to the settlement of the current agreements we instituted a Health Care Spending Account for all full-time faculty and staff.  The annual allocation of $350 per faculty/staff member may be used to cover deductible or co-insurance payments or uninsured medical expenses incurred by faculty/staff members and their dependents.