Non-Regular Faculty Committee

Improving working conditions for non-regular faculty and supporting initiatives to enhance job security for members is a top priority for FPSE. The Non-Regular Faculty Committee assists in developing and coordinating strategies to increase permanent employment and improve conditions for non-regular faculty in the system.

Committee Members

Chair	Ben Unterman
Staff Rep	Pierre Cassidy
Local Reps:
Local 1	Capilano University Faculty Association Susan Summers
Local 2	Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association Cesar Oritz Moya
Local 3	Faculty Association of the College of New Caledonia Deb Nielsen
Local 4	Douglas College Faculty Association Vacant
Local 5	Kwantlen Faculty Association Imelda Villalon
Local 6	College of the Rockies Faculty Association Allison Platt
Local 7	University of the Fraser Valley Faculty & Staff Association Toni Latour
Local 8	Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Vacant
Local 9	Okanagan College Faculty Association David Acosta
Local 10	Selkirk College Faculty Association Erin Rodier
Local 11	Academic Workers’ Union (Coast Mountain College) Ryan Elnar
Local 12	Camosun College Faculty Association Kendall Adam
Local 14	Langara Faculty Association Niall Christie
Local 16	North Island College Faculty Association Dan Webb
Local 17	Thompson Rivers University Open Learning Faculty Association Amy Tucker
Local 19	Nicola Valley Institute of Technology Employees’ Association Vacant
Local 21	Education & Training Employees' Association Vacant
Local 22	Emily Carr University of Art + Design Faculty Association Ben Unterman
Exec Liaison	Pauline Greaves

Policy Statement

The Non-Regular Faculty Committee works to promote better and more consistent representation of the interests of those members of FPSE locals who are involuntarily deprived of job security, salary or benefits normally accorded faculty within their respective locals.

Liaison: The Non-Regular Faculty Committee shall have the right to appoint a liaison person to each FPSE Standing Committee and to appoint a representative to the Provincial Bargaining Committee with voice but no vote.

Responsibilities

In addition to those responsibilities and activities that may be directed to it by the Presidents’ Council or the AGM, this Committee will:

Monitor developments in the salary, working conditions, and employment security of non-regular faculty and develop strategies to protect and enhance the interest of non-regular faculty.
Monitor the effects of the removal of mandatory retirement at FPSE locals and the effectiveness of any Transition to Retirement initiatives and their compliance with FPSE policies. Make action recommendations on Transition to Retirement matters from time to time as deemed necessary.
Develop and recommend to the Presidents’ Council a program of bargaining and lobbying objectives to advance the interests of non-regular faculty.
Examine and recommend to the Presidents’ Council collective action in support of the policy statements of this Committee.

Terms of Reference

Reporting: Reports regularly to the FPSE President and the Presidents’ Council.

Composition: The Committee is composed of one designated representative from each local. As much a possible, Non-Regular Faculty Committee representatives and non-regular liaisons shall be non-regular faculty.

A member will be appointed by the Executive Committee, with voice but without vote, to act as liaison between the Standing Committee, the Executive, and Presidents' Council.

Meetings: Meetings as required by the Committee to fulfill its responsibilities, limited only by the funding allocated to the Committee.

Term of Appointment: Locals shall endeavour to elect or appoint representatives for a two year term.

Chairperson: The Committee shall elect a new Chairperson at the fall meeting.

The Committee shall endeavour to elect a Chairperson who has served on the Committee a previous term as a local representative.

The Chairperson or designate shall have observer status at meetings of the Presidents’ Council with voice but no vote. The responsibility of the Chairperson includes attendance by the Chairperson or designate at the Presidents’ Council meeting immediately subsequent to a meeting of the Committee or upon request of the FPSE President.

The Chairperson shall attend the Annual General Meeting and Convention. The Convention shall provide orientation and planning opportunities for Committee Chairpersons and facilitate their meeting as a group.

The duly elected Chairperson of the Committee shall continue to serve as Chairperson where the Chairperson ceases to be a designated local representative to the Committee.

Observers: By invitation of the Chair.

Quorum: A majority of locals.

Voting: Positions adopted by consensus among designated representatives; otherwise by simple majority (By-Law #6).

Funds: As allocated in the annual budget.

Resources of Interest

The North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE) is a network of organizations concerned about the growth of contingent work—including part-time jobs, temping, sub-contracting—and its impact on the well being of all workers.