Thank you to everyone that attended the July 31^st Bargaining Input Meeting. We were able to share our bargaining survey input, address some member concerns, and successfully select our bargaining team.

We are pleased to announce our newly elected team:

• Community Representative – MaryAnn Ferguson
• Faculty Representative – Dr.Michael Ross
• Support Staff Representative – Jennifer Harkes
• Additional Faculty Representative – Amanda Graham
• YUEU President – Stacy Savage

There have been vocalized concerns of ensuring equal representation of support staff and faculty on the bargaining team and the membership voted on adding an additional faculty member to the team. The additional member will be funded by our local and we will be addressing the need of fair representation by amending our bylaws to capture this.

Our team brings a welcome balance of new individuals as well as two members that have been involved in past negotiations. We met with our PSAC Negotiator, Seth Sazant, August 26^th & 27^th to discuss all bargaining input and prioritize member concerns. We are scheduled to meet with the employer the first week of November and continue to plan on hosting several educational sessions before and throughout negotiations.

The bargaining input we received highlighted the importance of keeping members informed of items already covered in the collective agreement as well as mechanisms to address concerns with existing processes. We will be compiling data on all bargaining topics that we are unable to prioritize this round and providing rationale on why these items have not been selected to bring forward in our proposals.

In solidarity,

Stacy Savage

President, YUEU

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