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Queen’s must address the lack of mental health supports for graduate student workers

Written on September 2, 2021. Posted in Opinions.

Graduate teaching assistants (TAs), teaching fellows (TFs) and research assistants (RAs) at Queen’s perform work that is necessary for successful course delivery and research output in the university. We work as the fulcrum upon which course delivery is carried out, liaising between students and instructors,...

Research assistants bargain against two-year wage freeze, lack of intellectual property

Written on March 8, 2019. Posted in News.

Queen’s research assistants have spent five years fighting for fair wages—but they might not see any improvements for another two years. At a bargaining meeting on Monday, the University’s first wage proposal for research assistants included a two-year freeze, meaning assistants who currently hold...

Professional Student Teaching Assistants to Join PSAC local 901

Written on March 16, 2018. Posted in News.

On Mar. 9, Queen’s voluntarily recognized professional student teaching assistants (TAs) in the Juris Doctor and Doctor of Medicine programs are falling under the umbrella of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) bargaining unit. In a statement from PSAC, Lino Vieira, Political Communications...

Graduate and professional students ratify collective agreement

Written on February 2, 2018. Posted in News.

Ever since a previous collective agreement between Queen’s and Public Service Alliance Canada Local 901 (PSAC) expired in April, the two parties have spent the past few months negotiating a new deal. On Dec. 20, PSAC 901 reached a tentative agreement with the University. PSAC 901 President Craig...

SGPS stripped of $120,000 in new tentative agreement

Written on January 26, 2018. Posted in News.

After a previous collective agreement between the University and Public Service Alliance Canada Local 901 (PSAC) expired in April of 2017, the two sides reached a new tentative agreement on Dec. 20 of that same year. PSAC Local 901, a union that represents professional graduate students, has been...

Teaching Assistants Union launches condom campaign

Written on November 24, 2017. Posted in News.

To get the attention of students in their most recent campaign, Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 901 have handed out condoms throughout campus that read “Teaching Assistants and Fellows need union protection.” Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Local 901 represents approximately 2,000...

PSAC strike looms, union asks Queen’s to rejoin table

Written on October 21, 2016. Posted in News.

Over the course of a three-day vote on Oct. 13, 14, and 17, Queen’s postdocs voted in favour of a strike if Queen’s administration didn’t return to the bargaining table, after their negotiations broke down last month. “No one wants a strike, but we’re being forced by Queen’s to take action to get...

Postdocs plan strike vote

Written on October 14, 2016. Posted in News.

As of Oct. 5, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) — the union representing Queen’s post-doctoral scholars — say that Queen’s ceased contract negotiation with them. In turn, PSAC will be conducting strikes votes on Oct. 13, 14 and 17. In an email statement, Craig Berggold, Local 901 president,...

Postdocs make a plea for equity

Written on September 9, 2016. Posted in News.

At 10 a.m. on August 31, a box plastered with Queen’s campaign materials and containing scores of Mr. Noodles packages, were delivered to Principal Daniel Woolf’s office. Each package contained a message, personally addressed to Woolf himself. “Your luxury is our poverty,” one pack said. “It’s a...

According to the research

Written on January 14, 2014. Posted in Features.

You can’t have teaching without research and vice versa, according to John Smol. Smol, a professor in the department of biology, is one of five top researchers at the University who have collectively received $1.3 million in research grants through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans...

PSAC won’t crack despite pressure from Queen’s

Written on October 1, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Doug Nesbitt, PhD ’14 At the moment, both bargaining units of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Local 901 are engaged in negotiations with Queen’s University. Unit One, representing 1,300 graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and teaching fellows (TFs), started bargaining their second contract...

Deadlines without consideration

Written on March 15, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Sean Field, PhD ’13 Yesterday, the Graduate Studies Executive Council (GSEC) lowered graduate time-to-completion limits for PhD and Master’s Candidates to four years and two years respectively. GSEC reviews and amends regulations pertaining to graduate studies including admissions standards, degree...

Tag: PSAC

Queen’s must address the lack of mental health supports for graduate student workers

Research assistants bargain against two-year wage freeze, lack of intellectual property

Professional Student Teaching Assistants to Join PSAC local 901

Graduate and professional students ratify collective agreement

SGPS stripped of $120,000 in new tentative agreement

Teaching Assistants Union launches condom campaign

PSAC strike looms, union asks Queen’s to rejoin table

Postdocs plan strike vote

Postdocs make a plea for equity

According to the research

PSAC won’t crack despite pressure from Queen’s

Deadlines without consideration

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