Collective agreements

MAFA’s two Collective Agreements (2019-2024) are in force and the PDFs are available below.

MAFA_FT-Collective-Agreement-2020_2022-ext-2024-Feb2022

MAFA_PT-Collective-Agreement-2019_2024-Apr-2022

In the near future these two agreements will be available on this site in a more browser-friendly format.

Memoranda of Agreement (MOAs) signed since May 8, 2020

These documents are legally part of the collective agreements.

MOA #8 CA – FT (14Aug2020) -signed

MOA #8 CA – PT (14Aug2020) -signed

MOA #9 CA – FT and PT (Apr 2021) -signed

MOA #10 CA – FT (July 2021) -signed

MOA #11 CA – FT (16Dec2021) -signed CA extension

MOA #10 CA – PT (16Dec2021) -signed CA extension

Most recent: 

FT MOA #12 MAFA April 2022

PT MOA #11 MAFA April 2022

MOA FT #12 & PT #11 Renaming of University Librarian May 2022

FT MOA #13 Modification of EE process (Oct 2023)

Certification Orders

On August 21, 2003, MAFA received a revised certification order for the full-time unit, now often referred to as “Unit 1.” The bargaining unit is defined as follows, and MAFA is the exclusive bargaining agent for this group:

All employees of Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, employed as full-time professional Librarians and full-time Teaching Faculty (i.e. full, associate and assistant professors) and Lecturers, part-time Academic Librarians who are hired for terms of a least four months, Instructors, Sessionals, and Post-doctoral and Pre-doctoral contact positions with teaching responsibilties, save and except Deans, Associate Deans, those above the rank of Dean, the University Librarian, Faculty members who are members of the Board of Regents, the Dean of Students, the Director of the Computer Centre, Visiting Professors and those excluded by the Industrial Relations Act.

On the same day the NB Labor and Employment Board also certified a new unit of part-time academic staff, often referred to as “Unit 2.” It is defined as follows:

All employees of Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, employed on a part-time basis to teach or team-teach, on a per course basis, at least one Mount Allison University degree credit course, including Mount Allison degree credit courses offered through the Department of Continuing and Distance Education, save and except those at or above the rank of Assistant Dean, the University Librarian, the Dean of Students, the Director of Continuing and Distance Education, Mount Allison students and those excluded by the Industrial Relations Act.