The tentative collective agreement between the university and the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) is now official following the successful conclusion of QUFA’s ratification vote earlier today. The human resources committee of the Queen’s Board of Trustees voted to ratify the agreement earlier this week.

“I want to thank members of both the QUFA and university negotiating teams for their hard work in reaching this new agreement,” says Queen’s Principal Daniel Woolf. “This is a positive outcome as we enter the new academic term, allowing us to preserve the quality of our academic mission within the limits of our current financial reality.”

The new four-year agreement will expire on April 30, 2019. Highlights include:

• Across-the-board, annual salary increases of 1 per cent, 1.25 per cent, 1.5 per cent and 1.75 per cent.

• A memorandum of agreement that reaffirms the parties’ shared  commitment to the university pension project and sets out the process for engaging in that project.

Negotiations between QUFA and the university began in January of this year. Bargaining took place over 37 dates, five of which were conducted with the assistance of a provincially appointed conciliator.

QUFA represents approximately 1,350 university faculty, librarians and archivists.