Update for BUFA Members on Recent Grievances and Arbitrations
1) Wiley/Blackwell “Big Deal” Grievance: BUFA filed a grievance on the failure of the Administration to provide members with reasonable library resources as a result of the [...]
No CUPE Unit 3 Strike on March 17
CUPE 4207 has informed BUFA that it reached a tentative settlement with the University at 6 am on Sunday, March 15 for the English as a Second Language Instructors (Unit 3). The tentative [...]
BUFA Senate Update: Selected Issues – February 4, 2015 Meeting
The Draft Report of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Program Review and Prioritization This Committee was established in February 2014, with the mandate “to examine how academic programs [...]
BUFA Senate Update: Selected Issues – January 15, 2015 Meeting
Cancellation of 2015 Wiley-Blackwell Journals. An important issue for Senate is the Library’s recent cancellation of our subscription to 1,363 Wiley-Blackwell journals. At the January 14 Senate [...]