Job Action Committee

By Allen Mills, UWFA Vice President and JAC Co-Chair

The names below are those of UWFA Members who have agreed to serve as representatives to the Job Action Committee.

We are presently in negotiations with the administration over a new Collective Agreement. Relations between both sides at the table have been productive and there is no need to think that they will cease to be. But the difficult matters to do with money and benefits have still not been discussed. We continue to be paid substantially below both The University of Manitoba and Brandon University and to catch up with them is part of the mandate of the bargaining team. Organization in support of our goals is crucial.

We cannot know how things will go but it is prudent to prepare for every eventuality. That is why the Job Action Committee has been set up. It will promote communication, we hope, between UWFA’s Executive and the Membership and alert Members to the fact that we need to pull together towards our common goals. Your representative will be asking you for off-campus telephone numbers and email addresses.

These representatives will also be wonderful conduits for suggestions and ideas around bargaining as matters move ahead.

Please make a special effort to work with your rep and to log onto the UWFA website with its Newsletter.

Happy holidays.

Department	Name
Anthropology	Barnett Richling
Applied Computer Science	————-
Biology	Andy Park
Business and Administration	Sat Singh
Rhet., Writing and Comm.	Tracy Whalen
Chemistry	Devin Latimer
Classics	Mark Golden
Criminal Justice	Kelly Gorkoff
Economics	Melanie O’Gorman
Education	Paul Betts
English	Murray Evans
Environmental Studies	Alan Diduck
Geography	Marc Vachon
History	Alexander Freund
Indigenous Studies	Jacqueline Romanow
Kinesiology	Ben Trunzo
Library	Linwood DeLong
Math and Stats	Anna Stokke
Modern Languages	Sante Viselli
Philosophy	Sandra Tomsons
Physics	Esmat Elhami
Politics	Peter Ives
Psychology	Pauline Pearson
Religious Studies	Jeff Newmark/Carlos Colorado
Sociology	Barry Edginton/Wei Xing
Theatre and Film	David Hewlett
Theology	Arthur Walker-Jones
Urban and IC Studies	Judith Harris
Women’s and Gender Studies	Roewan Crowe