UTFA, University Administration Reach Tentative Two-year Settlement
On the evening of Wednesday, April 25, the UTFA Negotiating Team for Salary, Benefits, Pensions and Workload reached agreement on a tentative two-year settlement, covering the period July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2020. This agreement is subject to ratification by UTFA Council and by the Administration.
You will recall that in June we agreed on a one-year settlement conditional on the Administration’s agreement that we have a subsequent agreement covering the next two years in place prior to July 1, 2018. Your negotiating team returned to the bargaining table in the early fall to resume negotiations for this agreement and vigorously pursued both an increase in salary and an increase in benefits, as well as improvements to the workload policy (WLPP), the PTR process, and the salary anomaly process. Here is a summary of the settlement. A more detailed bargaining report will follow at a later date.
salary increases ( atb )
The tentative agreement provides for an increase in salary in each of the next two years. In the first year of the agreement, effective July 1, 2018, members will receive a 1.9% across the board ( ATB ) increase in salary. In the second year, commencing July 1, 2019, members will receive a 2% ATB, distributed as a 1% increase to all salaries, together with an additional $1630 per full-time member (representing a 1% increase on average salary). The flat amount will be pro-rated for part-time members. This increase compares favourably with increases negotiated in the university sector in Ontario, including among peer institutions, and with other broader public-sector settlements.
ptr increases
For the first year of the agreement, the parties will use the PTR model used in 16/17 and 17/18. This means that the ATB on salaries above the reference point of $163,970 will be used to fund additional PTR.1
However, PTR awards in the second year of the agreement will revert to the normal process that had been in effect up to and including the July 1, 2015 agreement.
As usual, PTR breakpoints and increments will increase by the ATB amounts (1.9% for the 2019 PTR exercise and by 2.0% for the 2020 exercise).