Attention CCFA Members,
Please join us in person or on Zoom for the CCFA Fall General Meeting. This is an opportunity to come together, hear from each other, and be included in how your union operates. The more you participate, the stronger we are!
Location: Y-227, Lansdowne Campus or via Zoom invites sent to your Outlook Calendar.
Tentative agenda:
- Reports from Executive officers
- Approval of Amended 2026-27 Budget
- Review and election of committee representatives
- Member Discussion: Our Union and AI
- Door prizes!
This meeting, we’re hoping to try something new! Your elected executives would love to talk with our members about your thoughts on what the CCFA’s position on AI should be. Right now, we don’t have one, and that’s a bit of a problem. During their Scheduled Development, some of our colleagues produced a paper [An Alternative Approach to AI], initially aimed at our employer, inviting them to consider their responsibilities in shaping AI engagement in a good way. So we thought it might be time for the CCFA to turn our minds to answer these questions for our union! Many faculty members have already been deeply engaged in this work, whether through assigned duties or out of classroom necessity; in fact, none of us are untouched by the AI event horizon.
We hope to see you there!
ALL MEMBERS should know that you HAVE THE RIGHT to attend, even if this meeting conflicts with your teaching schedule. We know not everyone is interested or willing to step away from teaching to attend a Union meeting, but if you want to, just politely inform your Dean or Director that you won’t be available to teach during the meeting, and they will either find you a sub or give you permission to cancel the class.
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 negotiated to make it possible for everyone to attend all of our meetings. Our General Meetings are only 1.5 hours, so even if all of them were in conflict with your teaching schedules, you’d have the right to attend them all.
If 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 be made available by personal request.
Announcements for meetings, events, infosessions, workshops and other union news are available via the “opt-in” subscription newsletter on our website; invites are distributed via the Camosun College CCFA listserv and the Confluence Blog digest. We are now issuing our GM and AGM invites as annually recurring meetings for long-range planning purposes. Please accept the series even if you are unsure you’ll be able to attend, so you’re sure to get the minutes and executive reports.
Lynelle Yutani (she/they)
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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. Since being elected as CCFA President in 2021, Lynelle serves on Presidents Council of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) and was elected in 2026 as FPSE First Vice President, Equity. She serves on several FPSE affiliate committees, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ and Racialized Workers Caucuses for the BC Fed. Lynelle volunteers at a rooftop community garden that partners with Harvest & Share Food Aid Society to grow fresh produce for local food banks and community food security programs.
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