Deal includes salary raises, flex-credit hikes: UWOFA
The new faculty collective contract, agreed to on Dec. 5 achieved important gains in compensation and benefits, job security for contract faculty and the use of student questionnaires on courses and teaching.
The 2018-2022 collective agreement, approved by the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), includes scale increases of 1.5 per cent for full-time members in years one through three and a 1.75 per cent scale increase in the fourth year.
Full-time faculty members will also receive substantial lump-sum increases to their base salary in the first three years of the new agreement, as well as merit pay increases in all four years. A career trajectory fund will be established in the fourth year — first to correct gender-based anomalies, then any remaining funds will be allocated to those whose salaries are below a trajectory appropriate to their career stage compared to similar faculty members at comparable universities, said the union.
Part-time faculty members’ base salary will increase by 2.2 per cent in each year of the four-year agreement, said UWOFA.
Flex credits for full-time members will increase to $2,250 in the first year of the new agreement and to $2,500 in years two, three and four, said the union.
Members with a limited-term appointment will now be eligible for limited-term no-end-date status after 12 years of continuous appointment. The threshold was previously at 14 years, said UWOFA.
