Communications (1 of 2)
Creators: name: Association Of University And College Employees
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: File contains the AUCE Local 1 newsletter "On Campus" dated December 1980 to September 1980. On Campus December 1980 includes a list of executives for 1981, information on AUCE Local 1's change of address, a grievance report and related correspondence, a notice on job evaluation committee questionnaires, support for UBC teaching assistants seeking a collective agreement, a year end report from the union office staff, letters from the Repeal 251 Committee, the Nicaragua Literacy Committee, CUPE, and the BC Teachers Credit Union, the secretary-treasurer's report, information on a group for women over 50, reprinted articles on a federal government clerks strike, BC labour law, pension plans and inflation, government controls of public sector bargaining, and a Metro Toronto Library assistants strike, background on the AUCE per capita tax, a list of current strikes, lockouts, and other disputes in BC, meeting minutes from November 30, 1980, a list of boycotted products and companies, a review of an NFB film "Operation Finger Pinky," notice of bylaw changes, correspondence, and an agenda for December 17, 1980. On Campus November 1980 includes information on the union's change of address, the UBC retirement policy and the union's response, correspondence from Citizens for a Better Surrey and the East Indian Defence Committee, motions of financial support, grievances, Telecommunications Workers Union job action, reprinted articles on AUCE affiliation, contract settlements and inflation, a list of on and off campus resources, AUCE Local 4's comments on affiliation, a list of Nabob products to boycott, reprinted articles on preventing unionization and a general strike in Sweden, a list of stewards, meeting minutes from October 23, 1980, correspondence, and an agenda for November 20, 1980. On Campus October 1980 includes information on budget cutbacks, job evaluation committee activities, a report on the AUCE president's resignation, letters from members on merging, support for COPE, CLC affiliation, and bureaucracy, an interview with Ted Byrne, a letter of criticism from the CCU, the secretary-treasurer's report, opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, an update on the contract, support for the Public Service Alliance and the Telecommunications Workers Union, an arbitration notice, Simon Fraser Student Society employees change in union representation from SORWUC to CUPE, support for the Pratt 3, health and Video Display Terminals, reprinted articles on union membership trends, a grievance case, "How to Please Your Secretary," and unions and media interactions, meetin minutes from September 18, 1980, correspondence, and an agenda for October 23, 1980. On Campus September 1980 includes information on the annual shop steward seminar, a list of stewards, a reprinted letter on media responses to strikes, a response from the contract committee, comments on organization, BC Teachers Credit Union services, graduate student centre operating hours, reprinted articles on sexism at work, equal pay for work of equal value, a walkathon for a women's shelter, notices, occupational health and women, meeting minutes from July 24 and August 14, 1980, opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, "A Business Woman's Soliloquy," correspondence, and an agenda for September 18, 1980.