In 1991 there were 2,979 academic staff at the University of Toronto, including tenured faculty, tenure stream, clinicians, tutors, senior tutors, and instructors. In 1991, there were 42,550 FTEs enrolled in this University, including both undergraduates and graduate students. The administration has never recognized this fact. Of course, our workload includes more than teaching. But the very substantial increase in our workload that we have experienced would be fairly recognized, we believe, in the salary increase we are proposing.
Appearances are misleading.
First of all, an administration can budget for anything it likes without taking account of what is fair. By contrast, the administration could take seriously its stated mission to have a faculty that is paid competitively and fairly, and then budget for other things. This wealthy university unquestionably has the ability to pay its faculty and librarians competitive salaries. Their budget simply expresses their unwillingness to do so. Please make your views on this known.