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The Retirees' Newsletter The Bi-Monthly Publication of the Retirees' Association (Faculty, Librarian, Administrator) The University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 Vol X, No. 4, October 2000 First Published in July 1991 | |
| Issue # 39 | Editor : Datta Pillay |
FALL GENERAL MEETING
Hoffman Auditorium, IONA COLLEGETuesday, October 24, 2000, at 2.30 p.m.
Meeting Agenda
1. Approval of Minutes
2. Remarks by Gerald Romsa - President, WUFA
3. Remarks by Jim Skinner - Human Resources
4. Remarks Ms Asae Cuthbert -Student Awards
5. Business arising from the minutes
6. Treasurer's Report - Phyllis Nolan
7. President's Report -Stan Cunningham
8. Committee Reports:
a) Pension and Benefits.
- Contract Proposals
- D7 Committee
- Health Benefits
b) Bursary Fund
c) Role of Other University & WUFA Committees
9. Report of Nominating Committee - Election of Office Bearers
10. Other Business
11. Adjournment
Presidents Message
I am greatly encouraged that our membership, now more than 200, comprises just over 80% of retired faculty and librarians and certain others from administration. That degree of membership lends weight and moral suasion to our discussions with the Faculty Association and the University.
During the summer, a number of us were active in representing WURA on the Faculty Association Pension and Benefits, and Executive Committees, and in pushing for continuous meetings. Through these Committees, we have already channeled our demands to the 2000/2001 Contract Committee. These demands focus on the issues of minimum-guarantee (MG) parity, retirees' claims on Pension Plan surpluses, and the establishment of a supplementary fund as a necessary step to improve minimum-guarantee pensions. These proposals, you will recall, were adopted by your Executive and published in our last Newsletter (June).
The Joint University/Faculty Association (D7) Committee was inactive during the summer months, but meetings have just resumed (September 18). We are hopeful that through this Committee we will be able to recommend improvements to the Pension Plan, and to work these into the Contract proposals in time for negotiations.
At the WURA general meeting in October, we will bring forward a package of health-benefit proposals which, if adopted through mail-ballot vote, would result in modest premium reductions. Given the inevitability of increases in health-benefit premiums, we view this as a significant saving for most health-plan subscribers.
We've scheduled our fall general meeting for Tuesday, October 24. I encourage you to attend.
Professor Emeritus Alistair MacLeod Elected Fellow of The Royal Society
Professor Emeritus Percy Brill
Honored at a Symposium University of Western Ontario
Page 1 Annual Meeting, President's Message
Page 5 Membership News
Page 6 Health Plan
Page 7 Pension & Benefits
Page 8 Association News
Page 9 Members News
Page 10 Editorial