April 10th: Update to Membership
Reminder: Always Review Your Faculty Workload Assignment! It’s that time of year, when salaried faculty are provided their Spring/Summer workload assignments (and for a lucky few, maybe Fall assignments!). SAFA […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
Reminder: Always Review Your Faculty Workload Assignment! It’s that time of year, when salaried faculty are provided their Spring/Summer workload assignments (and for a lucky few, maybe Fall assignments!). SAFA […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
Let’s Talk about Workload & Mutual Agreement Did you know? We have a Mutual Agreement Form that must be used in all instances when faculty are asked to work outside […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
Get Your Negotiations Info from the Right Source! We are aware that SAIT has launched a bargaining webpage in the last couple of weeks. We want to remind members that […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – March 21 March 21st marks the “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.” It’s always a good day to learn […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
SAFA’s Response to Budget 2024 As details of the provincial budget begin to be illuminated for the public, the light it shines does not show an improved story for post-secondary […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
SAFA Commences Bargaining with SAIT As SAFA has provided SAIT with its Notice to Commence Collective Bargaining, there’s some information in which members should be aware. First, with the notice […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
Let’s Talk about…. Wages Last week, the Premier of Alberta addressed Albertans in a pre-budget speech – there was no good news. Although it was stated that there will be […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
Casual to Salaried Contract Transition: Know Your Rights As we move towards the end of the winter semester, some casual faculty may be reaching 800 contract hours in the academic […]
SAFA President Bargaining, LRO Message, News
Bargaining Prep in Full Swing Your SAFA/SAIT Collective Agreement ends June 30, 2024. As such, your bargaining team (Jessica Norman, Amir Fard, Earl Simpson, and Craig Coolahan) is hard at […]
SAFA President LRO Message, News
How Your Vacation Works at SAIT There has been an ongoing misunderstanding as to whether or not a 0.5 permanent or temporary-salaried faculty member’s vacation should be pro-rated to 21.5 […]