Attention Camosun College Faculty Association Members, your Fall General Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 15, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM, on Zoom AND at Lansdowne in Wilna Thomas 201.
Please check your Outlook Calendar to make sure you’ve received our invite and link. If you haven’t gotten an invite, please contact us. If you’ve never attended a CCFA General Meeting before, GMs are now all HYBRID on alternating campuses, this time it is on Lansdowne! They run on time or even occasionally conclude early. This is an important meeting for all Term AND Continuing Faculty members to attend! We’ll update you on our progress in preparing for our next collective agreement, hear Executive Reports, find out more about our recent Arbitration Awards, approve our Budget, and bet updates on FPSE & CCFA Committee Memberships, win Door Prizes, and provide feedback to your Union Executives on how your union is run! We are looking forward to seeing you online!
ALL MEMBERS should know that you HAVE THE RIGHT to attend, even if this meeting conflicts with your teaching schedule. Now, we know that not everyone is interested or willing to step away from teaching just to attend a Union meeting, but, if you want to all you have to do is politely inform your Dean or Director that you won’t be available to teach during the meeting.
Clause 23. Union Rights
23.04 Release Time
(b) Professional Meetings
(ii) Up to four (4) times a year Faculty Members covered by this Agreement will be released at their request from their classes or from other assigned duties in order to attend meetings of the Union for up to two (2) hours on each occasion. When possible, the Union agrees to schedule such meetings so as to minimize disruption to students. The Dean or Director may cancel the classes or make other arrangements at the Dean or Director’s discretion.
This clause was written and bargained to make it possible for EVERYONE to make it to all of our meetings! Our meetings General Meetings are only 1.5 hours, so there’s enough time to attend them all – even if all of them were in conflict with your teaching schedules.
If you you’re a current CCFA Member and don’t have our invite already in your Outlook Calendar, please contact us. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you there. As a reminder to faculty, we do not record General Meetings. You must be present to vote on motions. Minutes of CCFA General Meetings are attached to the next GM invite the day of the meeting or can made available by personal request. Announcements for meetings, events, infosessions, workshops and other union news are available via “opt-in” subscription newsletters on our website, invites are distributed via the Camosun College CCFA listserv, and Confluence Blog digest.
Hope to see you there!
Lynelle Yutani (she/they)
ac.ytlucafnusomac@tnediserp
President, Camosun College Faculty Association
Lynelle is a queer, leftist rabble-rouser galvanized to guard the rights of union members and is on a crusade to convince you that you get out of your Union what you put into it. Lynelle serves on Presidents Council of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) and was elected to FPSE Executive as a Member-at-Large. She is on a number of FPSE affiliate committees, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ and Racialized Workers Caucuses for the BC Fed, and is active in the Victoria Labour Congress. Lynelle volunteers for a rooftop community garden, which partners with Harvest & Share Food Aid Society to grow fresh produce for local food banks and community food security programs.
[…] We need to be doing both. We need to all work together to succeed at both. So, be on the alert! You can always email us if you think your workload is wonky compared to your colleagues and we’ll be happy to review it with you. Be sure to fill out the Bargaining Survey when you can. We’re coming to your department meeting, and you can get the link during our Fall General Meeting. […]