The 2012 KFA Election closed on midnight on May 10th. A total of 363 faculty members participated in our first ever electronic vote. The following are the results of that election:

Education Policy
Number of Votes Cast For Balbir Gurm	171
Number of Votes Cast For Takashi Sato – Elected	173
Non-Regular Faculty
Number of Votes Cast For Michael Adams	10
Number of Votes Cast For Raphael Lagoutin	3
Number of Votes Cast For Jennifer Wolf – Elected	14
Status of Women
Number of Votes Cast For Ellen Faulkner	112
Number of Votes Cast For Val Innes – Elected	205
Vice-President, Negotiations
Number of Votes Cast For Bob Davis – Elected	228
Number of Votes Cast For Colin Green	133

Please join us in congratulating the successful candidates and in recognizing the hard work of those who were not elected.

A few pictures from our well attended AGM on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012:

  

 

Message from Joel Murray, Officer Responsible for the Election:

ACCLAMATIONS

As the Officer Responsible for the Election, I would like to congratulate the representatives who have been acclaimed:

• Terri Van Steinburg, President
• George Broderick, Business
• Cecilia Martell, Humanities
• Diane Walsh, Qualifying Studies
• Ann Marie Davison, Disability Management and Rehabilitation
• Terry Han, Human Rights and International Solidarity
• Bill Burgess, Occupational Health and Safety
• Suzanne Pearce, Pension Advisory Committee
• Bob Fuhr, Professional and Scholarly Development

In accordance with By-Law 7.4.6, these acclamations were announced at the Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

ELECTIONS

Elections will be held as per By-Law 7.5 for the following positions (listed with candidates in alphabetical order of first name):

Vice-President Negotiations

• Bob Davis
• Colin Green

Non-Regular Faculty

• Jennifer Wolf
• Michael Adams
• Raphael Lagoutin

Status of Women

• Ellen Faulkner
• Val Innes

Education Policy

• Balbir Gurm
• Takashi Sato

The election period will commence on May 1 and will end at midnight on May 10. The result of the elections will be announced by May 15.

2012 will mark the first electronic voting period for KFA Executive positions.  Information on the election process is as follows:

 Nomination Period – March 27 to April 16

The nomination period runs from March 27 until noon on April 16. During this period, nominations are to be made by email to the Chief Returning Officer, Erica Reimer, with a cc: to the nominee. The KFA will contact the nominee to request written consent that he/she will accept the nomination. Three calls for nominations will be made during this time period. In the event that the call for nominations results in only one nomination being received by the close of the nomination period, the nominee shall be acclaimed at the Annual General Meeting.

Nominations will be accepted for the following positions:

• President
• Vice-President – Negotiations
• Business Representative*
• Humanities Representative*
• Qualifying Studies and Access Representative*
• Non-Regular Faculty Representative*
• Status of Women Representative
• Disability Management and Rehabilitation Committee Representative
• Education Policy Committee Representative
• Occupational Health and Safety Representative
• Pension Advisory Committee Representative
• Professional and Scholarly Development Committee Representative
• Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee Representative

All positions are two year terms running from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2014.

 *Executive Representatives shall be elected by their constituencies only. All other positions are to be elected at large & are open to any member in good standing, as defined in Articles 1.1, 1.1.1, and 1.1.3 of the Constitution and By-Laws.

Annual General Meeting – April 17

The KFA Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 17 from 3-5pm on the Surrey Campus in room 128 in the Fir Building. Any acclamations will be announced during this meeting. Candidate lists will be announced by email and posted to the KFA website the day after the AGM. Shortly after this, candidate statements will be added to the E-Vote website at http://kfa.bc-alter.net/.  Candidate statements will be available online until the end of the Electronic Voting Period.

 

Electronic Voting Period – May 1-May 10

The Electronic Voting Period will be begin May 1 and run until midnight on May 10.  All eligible voters will receive an email on May 1 from our E-Vote provider detailing the voting procedure. Election results will be announced by email and posted to the KFA website on May 15.

 

Additional Information

Additional details on the voting process are detailed in By-Law 8 of the approved Constitution and By-Laws. A timeline chart is also available outlining the new voting process.

 

For more information, please contact Erica Reimer, Chief Returning Officer, or Joel Murray, Officer Responsible for the Election.

Although it may have been a bad week for Premier Clark, at some point she needs to take a long hard look at why her party, her Cabinet and her government are in such disarray. If she were prepared to take that look, I would suggest she have another read of Bill 18, the Advanced Education Statutes Amendment Act. First introduced in November of last year, it has caused something of a firestorm in colleges, universities and institutes across BC because it proposes to strong arm faculty who want to be active in both their local faculty association and the Board of their local institution.

Had the Premier taken the time to listen, she would have realized just how out-of-step Bill 18 is. She would have realized that for as long as there have been public post-secondary institutions in BC there have been faculty-elected representatives on the Boards of those institutions. And for just as long, there has never been any bar on whether faculty-elected representatives could also be active in their local faculty association.  Read more...

"With the help of the Labour Relations Board (LRB), we have made some real progress in our dispute with the administration at Northwest Community College (NWCC)," said Cindy Oliver, President of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators. Oliver was referring to a decision by NWCC administrators to issue layoff notices to all faculty covered by the Academic Workers' Union's collective agreement. "The mediated process that the LRB undertook spanned two days of very intense discussion, but the outcome has been an agreement by the senior administration at NWCC to withdraw the original layoff notices that were issued in January and follow the process of faculty consultation detailed in the Academic Workers' Union (AWU) collective agreement," Oliver added. Read more...

As educators around BC rally and march for fairness and change in our schools we are reminded once again of the important link between the campaign for progressive change and the solidarity we build within our communities to secure those changes. On March 8, women around the globe show that solidarity and determination for progressive change by marking International Women's Day with rallies, celebrations and gatherings organized to advance the cause of women's rights.

In Canada, the struggle for equality still has a long way to go. Women's pay continues to lag that of men even though the work and skill required for those jobs are the same. Women are disproportionately affected by the determination of right-wing governments, whether it's at the provincial or federal level, to wage war on budget deficits by cutting public services or limiting access to important social benefits. And women in Canada are more likely to retire with significantly less pension coverage compared to men. Read more...

As every union in BC's public sector knows all too well, the BC Liberals have no regard for free collective bargaining. More to the point, the current provincial government seems to go out of its way to pick fights with the labour movement, a strategy that is designed to undermine our unity and mobilize the public against whatever union is the target of the government's latest campaign. BC's public school teachers are the latest target, but the government's strategy isn't working. Read more...

On the heels of today's 2012 Provincial Budget and on the eve of the next round of bargaining, our forum on Thursday, February 23, Bargaining In Today’s Economic Climate, is timely considering the budget just brought down by the BC Liberal government.  

Iglika Ivanova, presenter at our forum, researches and writes on issues of government finance and taxation and how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services in BC and in turn to the quality of life of all British Columbians.  

Her comment on the 2012 BC budget is a must-read.  

Iglika is an knowledgeable, engaging presenter. You’ll be glad you attended.   I look forward to seeing you this Thursday. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to give me a call or send me e-mail.  

- Bob Davis
Vice-President, Negotiations

The Finance Minster says he wants to challenge our institutions to spend less, but his challenge comes on top of a decade-long trend in which his government has already cut real per-student funding by close to 9 per cent," said George Davison, Secretary Treasurer of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators. Davison's comments came in reaction to the tabling of the 2012 BC Budget which forecasts reductions in capital spending for post-secondary institutions along with further pressure on post-secondary institutional operating grants. "This is not a good news budget for our institutions, the communities in which they operate, but most of all, for the students who want to access their post-secondary learning opportunities," Davison added. Read more...

BC Economic and Fiscal Update: Impacts on Public Sector Bargaining

BC is officially out of the recession, but the slow recovery continues to take its toll on the public sector. Public interest rsearcher & economist, Iglika Ivanoka, speaks on the market conditions that affect bargaining and identifies how these conditions set bargaining agendas and predict trends.

Guest Speaker: Iglika Ivanova
Public Interest Researcher
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Iglika Ivanova researches and writes on issues of government finance and taxation, how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services in BC and in turn to the quality of life of all British Columbians.  She holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.

When:

Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:00 to 4:00 pm

Where:

Conference Centre, Room 2550 Richmond Campus

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