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Carleton University teaching assistants are to be reimbursed several thousand dollars each following arbitration on a miscalculation by the university of benefits due to the assistants.
Over the last year, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4600, which represents more than 2,400 contract instructors and teaching assistants at Carleton, has been engaged in a grievance process with the university over the calculation of the tuition increase assistance (TIA) rebate — a contract benefit guaranteed to teaching assistants to protect them from the rising cost of tuition.
“(The university) changed how they were making that calculation but didn’t notify the union,” said Dan Sawyer, who works with the CUPE local.
“So we’ve been engaged in the last year an extensive grievance process which culminated in an arbitration last week and the result of that is that Carleton will now be repaying hundreds of thousands of dollars owing to our members.”
CUPE estimates that the university may owe the 2,400 instructors a total of up to $400,000 per semester from September 2014 through to the end of the 2015-2016 academic year.
Sawyer said the discrepancies were first brought to the school’s attention in 2013. Carleton has agreed to repay all amounts owing by Dec. 15, 2015.
“You get $10,000 for a full TA-ship but once you subtract tuition and ancillary fees, a lot of TAs are left with less than $1,000 (a year),” said Sawyer, adding most TAs take on other jobs to make ends meet. “So any money that’s owed to TAs by Carleton can have a substantial effect on someone’s quality of life.”
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Over the last year, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4600, which represents more than 2,400 contract instructors and teaching assistants at Carleton, has been engaged in a grievance process with the university over the calculation of the tuition increase assistance (TIA) rebate — a contract benefit guaranteed to teaching assistants to protect them from the rising cost of tuition.
“(The university) changed how they were making that calculation but didn’t notify the union,” said Dan Sawyer, who works with the CUPE local.
“So we’ve been engaged in the last year an extensive grievance process which culminated in an arbitration last week and the result of that is that Carleton will now be repaying hundreds of thousands of dollars owing to our members.”
CUPE estimates that the university may owe the 2,400 instructors a total of up to $400,000 per semester from September 2014 through to the end of the 2015-2016 academic year.
Sawyer said the discrepancies were first brought to the school’s attention in 2013. Carleton has agreed to repay all amounts owing by Dec. 15, 2015.
“You get $10,000 for a full TA-ship but once you subtract tuition and ancillary fees, a lot of TAs are left with less than $1,000 (a year),” said Sawyer, adding most TAs take on other jobs to make ends meet. “So any money that’s owed to TAs by Carleton can have a substantial effect on someone’s quality of life.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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