Thank you to each of our members and retirees who came out to the December meeting and Holiday Social, we hope everyone enjoyed the streamlined meeting, good food, and good company! The Executive would like to wish everyone a safe holiday and happy new year.
Our local is moving from @uvic.ca email addresses to @cupe951.ca addresses starting in December 2023.
Individual executive board members may still use their personal email. Additional role based emails may be added in the future. For full confidentiality, we do recommend contacting us from non-uvic email addresses.
UVic launched the Better Data Project in November 2023. It is focused on collecting demographic details of UVic’s campus community (Faculty, Staff and Students). It replaces the Employee Equity Survey and provides an ongoing collection point for students. Once aggregated, the data will be used to help inform support structures, strategies, and institutional plans. Basically, the goal is to better…
As we were shy of quorum for November’s meeting, we are attaching below reports which will need to be moved for receipt at the December meeting. Normally we would take the time to read these in full at the meeting but as December is traditionally more social than business, we wanted to allow people to read the reports in full…
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is a day to remember and honour the Indigenous children stolen from their families and communities and sent to residential schools and it is a day to stand in solidarity with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. It’s important that we all reflect on actions we can take to be…