Our current Collective Agreement expired April 30th. On June 12, collective bargaining with the Employer got under way.
The APUO’s Negotiation Team is:
| Dalie Giroux | Academic Officer and Chief Negotiator | Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies |
| Dimitri Karmis | President | School of Political Studies |
| Colin Montpetit | First Vice-President | Department of Biology |
| Evan Sterling | Secretary-Treasurer | Library |
| Jennifer Blair | Mobilization Officer | Department of English |
| Mythili Rajiva | Officer-at-Large | Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies |
| Jean-Daniel Jacob | Collective Bargaining Committee member | School of Nursing |
| Michel Desjardins | Administrative Director | APUO Staff |
| Patrick Desjardins | Grievance Officer | |
| Stéphanie Kepman | Legal Counsel |
All the proposals we have tabled for bargaining are available at:
- Address Increasing Workloads
- Protect High Quality Education and Research
- Improve Equity and Protect our Rights
- Democratize Decision-Making
- Housekeeping
The Employer’s Negotiation Team is:
| Jules Carrière | Vice-Provost, Faculty Relations |
| Kathryn Prince | Associate Vice-Provost, Faculty Relations |
| Chantal Ferrot | Senior Advisor, Labour Relations |
| Jordan Alexander | Lead Advisor, Labour & Faculty Relations |
| Louis Barriault | Dean, Faculty of Science |
| Victoria Barham | Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Talia Chung | University Librarian and Dean of Libraries |
| Jean-François Tremblay | Deputy Provost, Planning and Academic Budgets |
| Guy Lévesque | Associate Vice-President, Innovation, Partnerships and Entrepreneurship |
| Anne Lemay | Legal Counsel |
The Employer’s proposals are available at:
At this time, neither party has tabled proposals relating to salary or health and benefits.
In the weeks ahead, we will be providing timely updates about the progress of our negotiations.
How to actively support our bargaining efforts
The APUO has created a series of four bargaining posters for posting on your office doors, one for each of our four collective bargaining pillars. Posting one or more of these posters on your office door is a great, and easy, way to express both your support for the APUO’s proposals and solidarity with fellow APUO members.
You can view the posters in both languages here.
Staying in Touch
At the University of Ottawa, the Employer removed email access to SSUO members during their strike in 2020. As is standard practice for unions engaging in collective bargaining, we are asking that you please share your personal email address and telephone number with us. Doing so ensures that, in the event of potential future lockout or strike we will be able to remain in contact with you.
Your information will be kept confidential and will only be used by the APUO should the Employer opt to remove Members’ uOttawa email access in the event of a lockout or strike.
Members will have received a survey form sent to their uOttawa email to share personal contact information and to order any posters. If you have not received this form, please write to nicole@apuo.ca.