Memo: CUPE Local 2278-Dues Deduction and Orientation (Aug. 9, 2011)

Memorandum
Date: Aug. 9, 2011
To: Deans, Directors, Department Heads, Administrators
From: Linda McKnight, Director, HR – Advisory Services
Subject: CUPE Local 2278 – Dues Deduction and Orientation

This memorandum is intended as a reminder of certain obligations of departments/faculties to your Teaching Assistants and Markers under Article 3 of the Collective Agreement with CUPE Local 2278 (“the Union”).

Article 3.01 requires that each employee in the Union’s bargaining unit complete a written dues check-off request upon commencing employment with the University.  That form is set out in Schedule B of the Collective Agreement.  Please ensure that this form is completed for each employee in the Union’s bargaining unit in your Department/Faculty.  Completed forms should be e-mailed to the Union office at cupe2278@interchange.ubc.ca.

Article 3.02 requires that:

• Each department or Faculty (in non-departmentalized Faculties) hold an induction/orientation meeting of all employees in the Union’s bargaining unit by the eighth week of the first term of the Winter Session.  Departments that hire new employees for January must hold an induction/orientation meeting between the first and eighth week of the second term of the Winter Session.
• Each employee and the Union are given written notice of the meeting at least two weeks in advance of the date of the meeting.  That notice must be consistent with the form set out in Schedule C of the Collective Agreement.
• A representative of the Union be provided with time to discuss the function of the Union, expectations, responsibilities and duties of teaching assistants and markers as well as their rights as members of the Union;
• Where departments handle orientation on an individual basis, they will inform the Union and the Union may then arrange its own meeting.  The Department will distribute to all employees in the Department written notices provided by the Union of any union-organized orientation meeting.

Please note that you should advise your Teaching Assistants and Markers to contact the Union for copies of the Collective Agreement.  Alternatively, the Collective Agreement for CUPE 2278 can be found on-line .

If you have any questions with regard to the foregoing, please call your Human Resources Advisor or Associate.

CC: HR Advisors and Associates, Peter Lane, CUPE Local 2278, Administrators

• View this memo as PDF.
• Download Schedule B (.doc)
• Download Schedule C (.doc)