Media Releases
 
  • March 21, 2006: Faculty Association votes to extend current collective agreement
  • February 16, 2005: Faculty Association expresses disappointment over Presidential search committee
  • January 11, 2005: Academic Vice President's Resignation a concern for Mount Allison Faculty
  • January 14, 2003: "MAFA Ratifies Contract" Faculty and Librarians voted 91% in favour of the new 4 year collective agreement.
  • November 20, 2002: "Mount Allison Faculty Show Resolve in Strong Straw Vote" The vote was 85% in favour of strike action if necessary.
  • November 18, 2002: "Straw Strike Vote at Mount Allison" Vote will be held November 18 and 19.
  • May 8, 2002: "Another Mt. A. Prof. Refuses Emeritus" Janet Hammock, a retired professor of Music, has found it necessary to turn down the offer of Professor Emeritus.
  • April 24, 2002: "Academic Freedom Violated at Mount Allison" CAUT A.F.&T. Committee of Inquiry has now published its report.
  • May 19, 2000: " Tuition Fee Hike Not Due to Faculty Salary Increases" Mount Allison students will pay more for tuition next year, but not because of faculty and staff salary increases.
  • July 6, 1999: "Faculty Association Wins Second Strike Arbitration" The effect of the decision is that professors and librarians will be paid 90% of their salary while on sabbatical leave in 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. 
  • May 4, 1999: "Retired Professor Turns Down Honour" Professor Charlie Scobie refuses Professor Emeritus award to protest the denial of this distinction to Michael Thorpe.
  • February 23, 1999: "Mount Allison Strike Ends -- The Strike That Should Not Have Happened" The CAUT Bulletin article on the end of the Strike.
  • February 8, 1999: "IS THERE ANOTHER MECHANISM TO END THE FACULTY STRIKE?" MAFA affirms the importance of binding arbitration as an option in response to the suggestion of the establishment of an Industrial Inquiry Commission.
  • February 4, 1999: "Senator Urges End to Mount Allison Strike". As the third week of the strike begins Senator Mabel M. DeWare calls for a resolution in a letter to President Ian Newbould.
  • February 1, 1999: "Faculty to Suspend Picketing for Funeral of Mr. John Wilson".
  • January 30, 1999: "MAFA Questions Budget Priorities - Picket Lines Remain". Includes comparisons with other undergraduate institutions on the percentage of the operating budget spent on academics and administration.
  • January 28, 1999: "National Support for Mount Allison Faculty". Representatives from faculty associations across Canada arrive for a National Day of Protest.
  • January 27, 1999: "Mount Allison Staff and CUPE Members Join Faculty on Picket Line". The other Mount Allison unions announce that they will join the National Day of Protest.
  • January 25, 1999: "Mount Allison Faculty Association Supports Mesheau’s Call for Intervention".
  • January 23, 1999: "During the third strike this decade, Mount Allison faculty wonder about the institution's future". This release includes some reflections on the long term problems at Mount Allison and how the present conflict is part of a pattern of mismanagement.
  • January 21, 1999: "Provincial NDP Leader and President of Canadian Association of University Teachers to Join MAFA Strikers Friday". Support builds around the meeting of the Board of Regents.
  • January 18, 1999: "Mount Allison Strike Date Announced". The strike date is announced and MAFA's members' resolve hardens in reaction to the administration's unprecedented threat to discontinue benefit plans should there be a strike.
  • January 15, 1999: "Mount Allison faculty authorize job action". The strike vote is 85% in favour and the two faculty representatives to the Board of Regents resign to join their colleagues in support of job action.
  • December 22, 1998: "CAUT to appoint Committee of Inquiry in Thorpe Case". An inquiry is announced into the denial of the honorary title of Professor Emeritus to Michael Thorpe.
  • December 15, 1998: "Conciliation process wraps up at Mount Allison". Negotiatons under conciliation break down and 95% of MAFA members vote to support the negotiation team with strike action if necessary.
  • November 24, 1998: "Mount Allison faculty and librarians back negotiating team in vote by members". MAFA members vote 95% in favour of supporting the negotiating team with strike action if necessary.
  • November 17, 1998: "Faculty calls on administration to reorient its priorities". The administration has allowed student numbers to rise while faculty numbers drop.
  • November 2, 1998: "Mount Allison Faculty Association calls for Conciliator". MAFA calls for conciliation to bridge impasse on issues of quality, equity and respect.
 

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