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	"author_name": "Association of Academic Staff University of Alberta",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/association-of-academic-staff-of-the-university-of-alberta",
	"title": "Tell Bill Flanagan you support AASUA’s bargaining team in their demands to #MakeItFair",
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	"description": "At the University of Alberta half of all courses are taught by instructors on contract. Sixty-percent of these instructors are forced to piece together a living on a course-by-course basis, with little pay and no benefits.* And those trapped in short-term contracts do more than just teach — there are around 80 Temporary Librarian, Administrative, and Professional Officers who must work at least six years at full time to secure permanent employment. There are over 400 Trust/Research Academic Staff (TRAS) whose appointments solely depend on external funding, even though around half have been employed at UAlberta for six or more years. In this round of bargaining, you can help support AASUA’s bargaining ask to ensure timely conversion to permanent, stable employment for these educators and researchers. Currently, ATS are eligible for career status after nine years of service. One of AASUA’s proposals is to shorten this term to 36 months of cumulative service.   Sign the petition to let President Bill Flanagan and the Board of Governors know that in this round of bargaining they must agree to AASUA’s proposals to #MakeItFair. The student experience is better when instructors have more one-on-one time with their students because they’re not leaving after class to teach their next course at another university across the city. It’s better when instructors know what courses they are teaching in the coming months and can prepare and order textbooks. It’s better when instructors are available to give students references — not absent because they had to find long-term employment elsewhere. Adding insult to injury, in the last round of negotiations the Board of Governors targeted this already-precarious group by introducing a two-tiered salary scale to take effect in 2024: over the course of their employment at the U of A, new contract-based instructors will make less than current ones, creating even more disparity within the Academic Teaching Staff on campus.   Sign the petition now to tell the Board that enough is enough; all academic staff members deserve job security! *This figure is based on 2023 fall semester numbers, the most recent data available.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/make-it-fair"
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