Grievance Officer Report
What To Do if You Have a Concern with Your Working Conditions by Nancy Taber When a member has a concern, he/she should email the BUFA Office. The administrative assistants will forward the email [...]
Grievance Officer Report
By Nancy Taber CAUT Grievance Training Due to facilitator illness, this training has been delayed until early in the New Year. Once we have confirmed dates, an invitation will be sent to the [...]
Management’s Duty to be Reasonable and Fair
In two very significant cases in the past year, arbitrators have found that management at Brock University had a duty to act reasonably and fairly in dealing with members who were exercising [...]
BUFA’s Grievance Panel is “Member Owned and Operated”
For the previous two years, BUFA’s Grievance Panel has been “Member Owned and Operated.” BUFA members’ issues are dealt with by other BUFA members who are trained, experienced members of the BUFA [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Dismissal and Just Cause
1. What are complaints and grievances? The process for handling complaints and grievances is described in Article 10 of the Collective Agreement. A “complaint” is “a disagreement which may lead [...]
Resolving Complaints and Grievances
The Collective Agreement that BUFA has negotiated with the Administration at Brock University is chocked full of rights (and, of course, responsibilities) for BUFA members. For example, there is [...]