Affiliations

As part of the local and nation­al labour move­ments, URFA has affil­i­at­ed to mul­ti­ple allied orga­ni­za­tions so that we can bet­ter work togeth­er with oth­er fac­ul­ty asso­ci­a­tions and unions to address the ever-increas­ing chal­lenges fac­ing our members.

URFA is cur­rent­ly an affil­i­at­ed mem­ber of the fol­low­ing organizations:

SOFA — Saskatchewan Orga­ni­za­tion of Fac­ul­ty Associations

This orga­ni­za­tion has been recent­ly revived with a man­date to lob­by the provin­cial gov­ern­ment for an increase in resources to advanced edu­ca­tion in our province. For­mer­ly known as SAUT.

CAUT — Cana­di­an Asso­ci­a­tion of Uni­ver­si­ty Teachers

CAUT rep­re­sents Cana­di­an uni­ver­si­ties and oth­er post-sec­ondary fac­ul­ty asso­ci­a­tions who apply for mem­ber­ship. Based in Ottawa, CAUT helps all its mem­bers with bar­gain­ing, griev­ance and aca­d­e­m­ic free­dom mat­ters, pro­vides advice and lob­bies the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment on mat­ters of advanced edu­ca­tion and leg­is­la­tion and poli­cies which could neg­a­tive­ly impact its mem­ber­ship. URFA attends two coun­cil meet­ings each year as well as forums for pres­i­dents, griev­ance chairs, chief nego­tia­tors, equi­ty chairs, etc.

SFL — Saskatchewan Fed­er­a­tion of Labour

This is the provin­cial labour orga­ni­za­tion for unions in Saskatchewan. There is an annu­al con­ven­tion in Octo­ber which alter­nates between Saska­toon and Regi­na. The SFL spon­sors var­i­ous edu­ca­tion­al activ­i­ties through­out the year and its com­mit­tees are a great resource which ben­e­fits URFA. The SFL rep­re­sents over 100,000 union­ized work­ers in Saskatchewan.