From the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT): Fair Employment Week (FEW) is taking place from October 20 to 24, 2025. FEW is the Canadian Association of University Teacher’s (CAUT) annual campaign to raise awareness about precarious employment on campus and to support your local association’s organizing efforts to improve the working conditions of Contract […]
Read More »The unprecedented employer-driven labour disruption at Dalhousie University continues. For more information on the DFA and Dalhousie University’s decision to lock out DFA members visit the Dalhouse Faculty Association website and the #KeepDalStrong space. The next Solidarity March is taking place tomorrow, Friday September 12. Meet outside the Killiam Library at 1100. All are welcome.
Read More »The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) represents nearly 1,000 professors, instructors, librarians and professional counsellors. Dalhousie University locked out DFA members on August 20. For more information on the DFA and Dalhousie University’s lockout of their members visit the Dalhouse Faculty Association website and the #KeepDalStrong space. StFXAUT members were present at the DFA Rally held […]
Read More »In 2021-2022, StFXAUT Members provided strike support to the following Canadian Faculty Associations: Acadia University $2,000 Concordia University of Edmonton $1,000 L’Association des professeurs, professeures et bibliothécaires de l’Université Sainte-Anne $1,000 University of Lethbridge $3,000 University of Manitoba $2,000 University of Ontario Institute of Technology $1,000
Read More »Key Dates from the 5th StFXAUT Collective Agreement[PDF]: April 15: Applications for URPTA, based on research or publication, shall be made to the appropriate Dean, at the Faculty members’ initiative, by April 15 of each academic year. (Article 2.7.1 University Research/Publication/Teaching Awards:3.1) May 15: Each librarian shall submit to the University Librarian a copy of […]
Read More »This article, published in the Spring 2022 edition of The Beacon, was written by Philip Girvan, StFXAUT Communications Officer. Wyanne Sandler, former Executive Director of the Antigonish Women’s Centre and Sexual Assault Services (The Women’s Centre), suggests heat poverty as something of a misnomer. Households do not just experience health poverty — there is no […]
Read More »This article, published in the Fall 2020 edition of The Beacon, was written by StFXAUT Communications Officer Philip Girvan. The StFXAUT continues to sponsor the Antigonish Emergency Fuel Fund (AEFF). As in years past, the StFXAUT donation of $1800 allowed the AEFF to pre-order 6 loads of wood ($300/load) for households seeking help with firewood. […]
Read More »This message, published in the Summer 2019 edition of The Beacon, was written by StFXAUT President Mary Oxner. The Fourth Collective Agreement between the Board of Governors of St. Francis Xavier University and the StFXAUT expired on June 30, 2019. What happens when the contract expires?Prior to its expiration, we provided notice of the intent […]
Read More »Opportunity. Security. Respect. An increasing number of teachers at Canada’s colleges and universities are trapped in precarious contract and part-time work. Contract and part-time work has quietly gone from a short-term stepping stone to a career-long condition. Many earn less than a living wage. Thousands of professors are denied the opportunity each year to participate […]
Read More »This article, written by StFXAUT Member Deidre M. Smythe, Part-Time Academic Instructor, Sociology Department, appeared in the Winter 2018 edition of The Beacon. There’s an old saying that goes roughly: “it costs money to be cheap”. It is the idea that paying a fair price for a good quality item that lasts for years makes […]
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