President (2023-24) Josh Lepawsky Geography Past President (2023-24) TBD Vice-President External (2023-24) Ash Hossain Business Administration Vice-President Internal (2022-24) Lucian Ashworth Political Science Secretary (2023-25) William Schipper English Treasurer (2022-24)

The MUNFA Executive is happy to report that as of March 17, 2023, both MUNFA and the MUN administration have signed the new Collective Agreement (CA) and as such it

We invite MUNFA members to register for your upcoming General Meeting. The General Meeting of MUNFA will be held on: TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2023 AT 1:00 P.M. VIA ZOOM VIDEO

Your Nominating & Balloting Committee is soliciting nominations for MUNFA’s 2023-24 Executive Committee and Nominating & Balloting Committee. Academic Staff Members (ASMs) from equity-seeking groups are encouraged to put their

The MUNFA Executive Committee has directed the Nominating and Balloting Committee to conduct a ratification vote for the new Collective Agreement by secret electronic ballot, which is required under Article

At its Feb. 14 meeting, your Executive Committee accepted a recommendation from the MUNFA Negotiating Committee that all of the Articles negotiated between MUNFA and the administration since August 2021

Your Executive Committee has voted to endorse the tentative agreement presented to them by your Negotiating Committee. As a result of this, the agreement will next go to members for

As MUNFA members know, your Negotiating Committee reached a tentative Collective Agreement with the university administration on February 10, 2023. This agreement must be ratified by the membership and by

With the announcement of MUNFA members’ historic strike vote on Jan. 18 and the strike deadline — set for January 30 at 12:01 a.m. — MUNFA’s Job Action Committee is

In the strike vote taken on Wednesday, January 18, the MUNFA membership voted to authorize your Executive Committee to call a strike if the committee deems it necessary to do

A reminder to MUNFA Bargaining Unit members that the strike vote will be conducted electronically on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 from 8:00 am – 8:00 pm Newfoundland Time (UTC−03:30). Bargaining unit members

The MUNFA Executive Committee has directed the Nominating and Balloting Committee to conduct a strike vote by secret electronic ballot. A successful strike vote will authorize the Executive Committee to

As MUNFA and the administration’s bargaining teams have reached an impasse, the provincially appointed conciliator has filed a report with the Minister Responsible for Labour. This has initiated a 15-day

As your Negotiating Committee reported on Dec. 2, negotiations with the administration’s bargaining team have reached an impasse. Despite repeated attempts on MUNFA’s part to move to a more agreeable

MUNFA is seeking to fill one (1) vacancy on the Joint Association/University Employment Equity Committee. As outlined in Article 30 of the MUN/MUNFA Collective Agreement, the Joint Equity Committee (JEC)

MUNFA members were dismayed to read about the MUNL food bank closing temporarily in October because it didn’t have enough resources to meet the “surging demand” it was seeing. Furthermore,

MUNFA has recently received a number of queries from Academic Staff Members (ASMs) seeking credit for teaching outside the ASM’s home Academic Unit (AU). In that regard, we wish to

MUNFA has learned that many members who have volunteered for various committees at Memorial University, such as advisory committees to senior administration and a variety of search committees, have been required

The following candidate has been elected by acclamation to the MUNFA Executive Committee 2022-2023 as the Member-at-Large (Term-Appointed ASM): Member-at-Large (Term-Appointed ASM) Daniela Silvesan, Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics The

This is the second call for nominations for ONE (1) Term-Appointed Member-at-Large position on the 2022-2023 MUNFA Executive Committee. The Nominating and Balloting Committee are soliciting nominations for this positions,

MUNFA members are in the process of creating a COVID working group and are looking for more members who would like to be involved. The working group will research and

A number of groups that are key to MUNFA’s operations — especially at the current moment, when members are engaged in bargaining for a new collective agreement — have little