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A message from McGill’s Labour Relations:

Here is the process that should be followed for employees facing the current flooding:

First, the employee should call their supervisor (each day) to advise him/her that they will be late or that they will not be able to come to work because of the flooding. If their supervisor agrees that this situation is linked to the flooding, the employee will be paid as if they were present at work. This directive will be in force for the week of Monday May 8 to Friday May 12. Please note that this directive does not have any retroactive application.

If the employee is still unable to come to work starting May 13, McGill will allow the employee to take unused Personal days, Vacation days and/or accumulated overtime. If the employee has already used all the above days off, McGill will allow the employee to take anticipated vacation (up to 10 vacation days) from his June 1 vacation bank.

This directive will be in force until the end of May.

The CSN theme for Womens Day, March 8, 2017 is L’égalité sans limites (Equality without limits).

L’égalité pour les femmes n’est pas chose acquise. L’impact sexiste des mesures d’austérité dont les coupes dans les services publics, les multiples violences contre les femmes et notamment les femmes autochtones, l’inéquité salariale pour de nombreuses femmes, la privatisation des services de garde éducatifs, la discrimination systémique en emploi qui perdure pour toutes les femmes et en particulier pour celles qui sont racisées ou en situation de handicap, le mythe de l’égalité déjà-là : la liste des barrières qui s’érigent devant les femmes semble s’allonger à l’infini. N’oublions pas que la force du mouvement féministe réside dans sa capacité de lutter pour que disparaissent toutes les barrières qui nous freinent. Notre objectif : l’égalité sans limites… d’où le signe de l’infini en forme de 8.

Les mots à l’intérieur du 8 nous rappellent que les féministes se mobilisent partout au Québec pour revendiquer une véritable égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, entre les femmes elles-mêmes et entre les peuples. Les valeurs portées par le mouvement féministe rompent le cercle des inégalités. Elles ouvrent sur un monde d’égalité et de justice sans limites pour toutes!

A walk on the Parliament

A show of support to the hotel workers on strike.

A letter to Vice-Principal Yalofsky (Administration & Finance), Provost Manfredi, and Vice-Principal Mme Gervais (HR)

We, the undersigned member associations of the McGill Communities Council, stand in solidarity with AMUSE in their collective bargaining negotiations with McGill University. We urge the administration to conclude an agreement with AMUSE in an equitable manner consistent with their demands. We in MCC are committed to fairness and transparency. Therefore, we support the union’s efforts to achieve a living wage and to receive respect in line with their immense contributions to the university.

Furthermore, we are concerned to see McGill Human Resources aligned so closely with the senior management, when they have a responsibility to all university employees, casual or not, as the staff whom they oversee. With mutual cooperation, we can move towards a more respectful and productive relationship for all parties involved.

MCLIU
MUNACA
PGSS
SSMU

8 points of consensus to prevent a good idea turning into a horror story

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At the press conference of SCCUQ – Syndicat des chargées et chargés de cours de l’UQAM, MCLIU president Raad Jassim with other Fneeq unions’ presidents. (October 20, 2016)

MCLIU support of AMUSE’s demands – president Raad Jassim at AMUSE’s picket line.

Among the courses that you have taught in the past two years, have any of them now been assigned to a grad student, an adjunct professor, a post-doctoral fellow or to a professional?

If yes, please immediately inform the chair of your hiring unit that for the purposes of maintaining your priority points you be considered as if you have taught the course. As per article 15.03 last paragraph:

An Employee who has taught the same Course during the two preceding Academic Years and who is deprived of the opportunity to give this Course as a result of the application of the present article [15.03] shall maintain her priority points. The Employee so affected shall inform her Hiring Unit that she finds herself in this situation no later than 30 days following the beginning of the term.

Please note that even if you have already filed a grievance for the same course, you should still write to your Hiring Unit as soon as possible.

MCLIU President Raad Jassim with Michael Loft, retired Academic Associate, School of Social Work, at the ceremony of the relocation of the Hochelaga Rock and the launch of the Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education. Below: speakers at the ceremony.

Raad Jassim, President of MCLIU-SCCIM, with Marlin Schmidt, Minister of Advanced Education, Alberta, met at COCAL (Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor) XII Conference, in Edmonton, in August. Mr. Marlin is very supportive to course lecturers as essential part of education to help our society and our future. He sees education not a cost but rather an investment.

Contracting and collegiality in higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization

A session by the Regroupement Université – Fneeq, CSN – at the World Social Forum, August 2016

Presenters from: Mexico, France, British Columbia and Montreal.