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Academic Staff Agreements

CUASA – Carleton University Academic Staff Association

Represents academic staff including faculty, instructors, and professional librarians.

The parties recognize that the goal of the University is the attainment of the highest possible standards of academic excellence in the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge, to be achieved principally through teaching, scholarship/research and community service. The parties agree to cooperate in the promotion and enhancement of the University and to encourage a climate of freedom, responsibility and mutual respect in the pursuit of these goals. It is the purpose of this collective agreement to foster and continue the existing harmonious relations within the University community and to provide an amicable means for settling differences which may arise from time to time between the employer and the employees in the bargaining unit.

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CUASA – Collective Agreement

2021 to 2024: Amended July 28, 2022

CUPE 4600 Unit 1 – Student, Teaching, Research, and Service Assistants

Represents Teaching Assistants (TA’s)

The general purpose of this Agreement is to establish an orderly collective bargaining relationship between the Employer and the employees represented by the Union, to ensure the peaceful settlement of disputes and to set forth agreements covering rates of pay and other working conditions.

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CUPE 4600 Unit 1 – Collective Agreement

Sept 1, 2022 to Aug 31, 2025

CUPE 4600 Unit 2 – Contract Instructors

Represents Contract Instructors

The purpose of this Agreement is to maintain a harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship between the Employer and employees represented by the Union and to establish terms and conditions of employment relating to remuneration, hours of work, employee benefits and working conditions, and to provide a method of settling any differences which may arise between the parties.

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CUPE 4600 Unit 2 – Collective Agreement

Sept 1, 2022 to Aug 31, 2025

Contract Instructors – Seniority List

Please click on the link below to access the most recently updated seniority list. You may be required to enter your MC1 credentials.

Note that Contract Instructors hired via Article 17 will appear on the Seniority List. When assessing a candidate’s seniority, departments must ensure that any Article 17 appointees listed in the Seniority Chart have obtained seniority in accordance with Article 17.3 of the CU-CUPE4600 (Unit 2) Collective Agreement. Please note that Contract Instructors on the Seniority List are associated with their initial department.

This report will be updated by the end of the second month of each term.

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Total Seniority Points

Updated November 2024.

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) 77000 – Postdoctoral Fellows

Represents Postdoctoral Fellows employed by Carleton University.

The general purpose of this Agreement is to establish an orderly collective bargaining relationship between Carleton University (hereafter referred to as the Employer) and its Employees represented under this Agreement by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (hereafter referred to as the Union), to encourage efficiency of operation, to establish mechanisms for addressing and resolving disputes, and to set forth an agreement covering the hosting standards for Postdoctoral Fellows whose employment falls within the scope of this bargaining unit.

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PSAC 77000 – Collective Agreement

May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025