Exec raises mired by conflict of interest? By Hannah Larking News Editor September 10, 2008 A recent increase in salary for the UWSA executives is raising the brow of former board of directors member, Robert Wagner.
The UWSA executives requested a $1,500 raise each (totaling $6,000) that was approved unanimously by the board of directors. This money was originally meant to be used as a gratuity to be spent at the University of Windsor’s student pub, The Basement. The ‘tab’ was instated eight years ago as a raise, said UWSA president Tiffany Gooch. But when the pub closed last April, the board decided to keep this money as a salary increase. “There hadn’t been a raise since 2004 for executives,” Gooch said. Now that the pub is reopened, they want another $1,500 — and they’ve got it. >> | UWindsor's medical education building to open "very shortly" By Hannah Larking
News Editor September 10, 2008 The University of Windsor’s highly anticipated medical education building will be welcoming 24 new students very shortly, said Brian Mazer, the special advisor to the provost at the university.
Mazer says the new building will be used jointly by the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry program and by the University of Windsor as a whole. However, only the medical school part of the building will be functioning for the fall semester. “We never intended for classes for the university as a whole to start in the fall,” Mazer explained. “We planned to start using it primarily in January.” >>  | | Campus Kiss | | WUFA secures 96 per cent strike mandate By Hannah Larking News Editor September 10, 2008 On September 4, WUFA released the results of their week-long poll for a strike mandate showing a 96 per cent majority in favour. According to the press release, the vote came as a last result when negotiations in August faltered.
“A strong mandate is the best way to secure a fair, equitable collective agreement, an agreement that includes sector parity in wages and benefits, an agreement that embodies robust principles with respect to employment equity, and an agreement that preserves the quality of education at the University of Windsor,” The Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) argued in its statement. The poll took place from Aug. 27 to Sept. 3.
According to Brian E. Brown, WUFA president, the university administration’s reluctance to take WUFA’s contract proposals seriously, or approve sector parity in benefits in working conditions indicates that they are willing to sacrifice educational quality at the University of Windsor. >> |
