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Dalhousie Faculty Association V Board Of Governors Of Dalhousie College And University, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Association grievance alleging that Ms. Bednarski and Dr. Ross were members of the Bargaining Unit for the academic year 1981-82, that the University breached the Collective Agreement between the parties signed February 5, 1981 and effective from that date to June 30, 1982 and thereafter in accordance with Article 33.01, by failing to deduct regular monthly dues from their salaries in accordance with Article 7.02 and failing to provide information in accordance with Articles 7.05, 7.08(a) and 7.08(b). The Association seeks a declaration that Ms. Bednarski and Dr. Ross were members of the Bargaining Unit during the academic year 1981-82 …

Canadian Academic Tenure And Employment: An Uncertain Future?, Innis M. Christie, David J. Mullan

Dalhousie Law Journal

Canadian academic employment relationships can be said to fall into three categories: 1) The traditional "contract-statute" relationship 2) The collective bargaining relationship, and 3) The "special plan" relationship.1 What is the legal nature of each of these relationships and what are the implications of each? Which issues have proved, or could prove, sensitive in the "contract-statute" setting? Can collective agreements or special plans provide better solutions? These are the fundamental legal questions, but tenure issues loom so large that they tend to swallow up the other questions and answers.

Re Campbellton (City Of) And Canadian Union Of Public Employees, Local 76, Innis Christie, H Harvey, D Cochrane

Innis Christie Collection

We are concerned in this interim award with the legal questions of whether this board of arbitration is properly constituted and whether we have jurisdiction to deal with the grievances before us. At this stage we are not concerned with whether or not the dismissal of the grievors by the employer was just and reasonable. Indeed, we do not have before us evidence of the facts on the basis of which any decision on that ultimately important issue will have to be made. The only facts which concern us now are those which are necessary for the legal decision we …

Canadian Academic Tenure And Employment: An Uncertain Future?, Innis Christie, David J. Mullan

Innis Christie Collection

Canadian academic employment relationships can be said to fall into three categories:

1. The traditional "contract-statute" relationship
2. The collective bargaining relationship, and
3. The "special plan" relationship.

What is the legal nature of each of these relationships and what are the implications of each? Which issues have proved, or could prove, sensitive in the "contract-statute" setting? Can collective agreements or special plans provide better solutions? These are the fundamental legal questions, but tenure issues loom so large that they tend to swallow up the other questions and answers.