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FNBFA
Federation of New Brunswick
Faculty Associations
FNBFA Board
Representatives of the 6
Member-associations
Executive
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• President (R. Hudson)
• Vice President (A-H.
Boudreau)
• Treasurer (D. Bell)
• Secretary (M. Jones)
• At-large (L. Lequin)
ABPPUM
ABPPUM-CE
APPUM-CS
AUNBT
FAUST
MAFA
Issues
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Meet your MLA
Transparency
Conciliation Boards
Wage Constraints
University Autonomy
Negotiations 2013
Meet your MLA:
27 hours of discussion
Ministers
• Martine Coulombe
• Danny Soucy
• Mike Olscamp
• Craig Leonard
• Claude Williams
• Madeleine Dubé
• Marie Claude Blais
• Troy Lifford
MLAs
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Chris Collins
Roger Melanson
Victor Boudreau
Greg Davis
Jack Carr
Carl Killen
Wes McLean
Curtis Malloch
Ryan Riordon
Sherry Wilson
Donald Arsenault
Faculty Participating
• AUNBT:
Miriam Jones
Jula Hughes
David Bell
Lucy Wilson
Jon Thompson
Dorothy DuPlessis
Lloyd Waugh
Juan Carretero
Arthur James
Jeff Houlahan
Francesca Holyoke
• FAUST:
Mary Lou Babineau
Jean Sauvageau
James Gilbert Walsh
Jean Philip Ranger
Bonnie Huskens
Paul Burnett
Karen Roberts
William Forrestall
Robin Vose
Faculty Participating
• ABPPUM/CS/CE:
Linda Lequin
Michel Cardin
Robert Baudouin
Annie Hélène Boudreau
Lacina Coulibaly
Hector Adegbidi
• MAFA:
Rick Hudson
Christina Ionescu
Renate Schellenberg
Anita Cannon
Mario Levesque
Right to Information Requests
Law applies to universities Sep 1, 2012
• President’s, VP’s,
Associate or Assistant
VP’s, Dean’s salaries,
bonuses, severance pay.
• Housing allowances
• Pension plans
• Separate
allowances/gratuities
• Salary adjustments
• Compensation
adjustments
• Spending on lawyers
• Lower salary ranges
<$60,000 part-time
and full time
• President’s contracts
Spending on lawyers: UNB
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2004/2005:
2005/2006:
2006/2007:
2007/2008:
2008/2009:
2009/2010:
2010/2011:
2011/2012:
2012/current:
• TOTAL:
$ 228,413.66
$ 335,473.53
$ 206,429.59
$ 219,007.38
$ 222,479.97
$ 847,215.99
$ 792,116.71
$ 553,992.30
$ 345,372.31
$ 3,750,501.44
Salary: President Mount A
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2006/2007:
2007/2008:
2008/2009:
2009/2010:
2010/2011:
2011/2012:
$ 180,000 - $ 204,999
$ 205,000 - $ 229,999
$ 230,000 - $ 254,999
$ 255,000 - $ 279,999
$ 280,000 - $ 304,999
$ 305,000 - $ 329,999
Conciliation Boards
• Issue: use at Moncton (2008), UNB (2010),
MtA (2010)
• Effect on bargaining
• In November 2010: D. Desroches met with
Minister Coulombe, who put a deadline of Jan
31 on the Board
• In November 2012, DM Tom Mann wrote
there was no policy to impose conciliation
boards on universities
Letter from Tom Mann to R. Hudson
• As you are likely aware, conciliation boards
have been a rarely-used tool under the
Industrial Relations Act (Act). Until 2005, no
such boards had been appointed under the
Act in our province in almost two decades.
The appointment of conciliation boards is not
a widely used practice in other jurisdictions
either.
Letter from T. Mann
• While conciliation boards were appointed for
the Universite de Moncton in 2008, and both
the University of New Brunswick and Mount
Allison University in 2010, in each instance
these appointments were done following a
careful examination of the individual facts and
circumstances in each case with the
expectation that such an approach would
benefit the parties and help them in bringing
about an agreement.
Letter from T. Mann
• Let me be clear that the position of the
Department is that the recent use of
conciliation boards does not in any way imply
the establishment of a pattern with respect to
such appointments.
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• As stated earlier, conciliation boards are and
should continue to be a rarely used tool under
the Industrial Relations Act.
Wage Constraints
• Feb 14: letter from Premier to University
Presidents
• Feb 18: letter given to AUNBT
• Feb 19: AUNBT gives letter to FNBFA
• Feb 21: FNBFA meets with DM of PETL
The Constraints
• In August of each year, Statistics Canada will
publish the real GDP figure for New Brunswick
for the previous calendar year, and a wage
increase of 75% of that figure will be provided
in October.
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• The annual increase is capped at 2% but if real
GDP is low, there will be no decrease in wages
Meeting with T. Mann
• Feb 21: R. Hudson, E. Hans, with T. Mann
• History
– Early January: letter sent to public sector unions
– Late January: letter sent to crown corporations
– Feb 14: letter sent to universities and the greater public
sector organisations
• Constraints are not being imposed on universities: they
will not be legislated, and university grants will not
depend on following the policy
• Like in Ontario – not mandatory
• Letter also sent to other organisations outside Govt. of
NB control, such as Atlantic Lotto
University Autonomy
Negotiations 2013
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AUNBT
FAUST
MAFA
ABPPUM-CE
The End