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Collective Agreement Bargaining 2025

Our Current Collective Agreement was ratified on January 24, 2022 and covers the period from July 1, 2021 to June 30,2025. This means that we are now beginning bargaining with the employer for a new Collective Agreement. We will post regular updates here so you can stay informed. The latest update will be posted here, with a full list on the main Bargaining page. Please check that main page for full details! See also the side bar on this page.

Please note: We need members to help out with bargaining - either with scribing duties (taking transcripts during bargaining sessions), help us out in the back with research and language changes, or providing administrative support. We are eternally grateful for the three Faculty members who have stepped up to scribe for us as well as those who work with us in the back room between bargaining sessions, but our team cannot do it alone.
If you are willing to give us a hand, please email us at cuefabargaining@gmail.com and we can give you bargaining dates (as they become available) to see if you can help.

Bargaining Update: September 5, 2025

Four major points regarding bargaining to date.

Please see full details and all updates on the main Bargaining page.

  • As of Sept 5 we have signed about 30% of the articles, most of them low stakes. We have made some gains (see the bargaining page for full details). We are now working on the more complex articles.
  • The bargaining team is very concerned with the slow pace of bargaining, which could have ramifications for how the administration deals with impasse in the future, opening the potential of a lockout in the summer months. There are two principal reasons for the slow pace of bargaining: 1) the employer being unable/unwilling to meet regularly; 2) the employer is very reluctant to change status quo on many issues, especially those relating to job security, grievance and harassment, discipline articles, etc. (See the bargaining page for full details.)
  • The bargaining team is incredibly disappointed with the employer's views and treatment of our Academic Service Officers, particularly our Librarians. We are also dealing with a fundamental disrespect for all of our ASOs at CUE. We will continue to advocate for ASOs and need all CUEFA members to recognize the desire of the employer to unfairly differentiate the rights and securities of faculty members and ASOs. (See the bargaining page for full details.)
  • The bargaining team has serious concerns with the employer's proposed Intellectual Property Policy (which we have not yet dealt with in bargaining). We ask that all CUEFA members read the proposed policy and be informed about its implications. If you have questions about the implications of the employer's proposed IP Policy,please email us at cuefabargaining@gmail.com. (See also full deails on the bargaining page.)

    • Please see full details and all updates on the main Bargaining page.

    If you have a question related to Bargaining, please email CUEFAbargaining@gmail.com.

    If you have a concern, issue, or action item not related to Bargaining that you would like to discuss, please contact CUEFA in confidence at: grievance@cuefa.ca or cuefapresident@concordia.ab.ca.

    mindset shift
     

    We continue to work towards greater equity and transparency at CUE among faculty/ASOs, sessional instructors, students, and administration and CUE's Board of Governors.

    In recognition that we are all CUE, we believe in moving forward as a collaborative community.

    Only together can we truly carry out the mission and vision of Concordia University of Edmonton.