Ratified — New collective agreement for U of R Academic members!

July 17, 2024

Thank you to every­one who vot­ed in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Regi­na — Aca­d­e­m­ic bargain­ing unit rat­i­fi­ca­tion vote!

It is our plea­sure to announce that the new col­lec­tive agree­ment has been rat­i­fied by both par­ties and will come into force immediately.

The new col­lec­tive agree­ment includes:

• Expan­sion of the scope of aca­d­e­m­ic freedom
• 13% pay increase over 6 years — with retro pay for eli­gi­ble mem­bers (Appen­dix A)
• One-time lump sum pay­ments of:
  • $2,000, which is not applied to base salaries or salary scales, to be paid to all full-time staff members
  • $1,500 to be paid to ses­sion­als who have worked a min­i­mum of 1,040 hours in one of the fol­low­ing aca­d­e­m­ic years: 2021 – 2022, 2022 – 2023, or 2023 – 2024
• $700 increase (from $300 to $1,000) for para­med­ical ser­vices for licensed psy­chol­o­gists or social work­ers, which will take effect on the first of the month fol­low­ing ratification
• $200 increase (from $1000 to $1200) for the Flex­i­ble Spend­ing Benefit
• New lan­guage on ses­sion­al conversion
• And more

We have some house­keep­ing to com­plete with the new doc­u­ments, how­ev­er once that is done and they are signed, we will dis­trib­ute copies of the new col­lec­tive agree­ment to mem­bers, and a dig­i­tal copy will be avail­able pub­licly on our website.

URFA’s Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee wants to extend our sin­cere thanks to the mem­bers of the U of R Aca­d­e­m­ic bar­gain­ing team: Andrew Stevens, Melanie Good­win, Andi Céline Mar­tin, Syl­vain Rheault, and Lan­don Schaffer. 

This agree­ment would not have been pos­si­ble with­out their hard work and com­mit­ment to cre­at­ing a stronger workplace.

If you have any ques­tions about lan­guage, please email urfa@​uregina.​ca. Please direct any ques­tions about retro pay or time­lines to your man­ag­er or the HR depart­ment, as they are in charge of imple­ment­ing the changes.