If you do not know what the Joint Occupational Health and Safety committee(JOHS) is I would not be surprised. The JOHS is a joint employee/employer committee mandated by law to be established in work places. In January of 2010 the Cape Breton Faculty Association(CBUFA) pulled its members from this committee. I applaud this action taken by our union and hope that it is the first step in reforming a committee that, in my opinion, is completely dysfunctional and more interested in the appearance of safety. One significant problem with [...]
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By Michael Manson System Restructuring There is little, if any, doubt that teaching and research are expensive activities to establish and maintain. The report concedes that point. But what it does not do is to examine the administrative costs of each institution – and that despite the detailed analysis of expenditures wherein salaries are discussed (in the Outlook Section) which reveals interesting data. The growth in faculty salaries over the last 10 years has been 46% when compared with non-ranked faculty, staff and administrators (56%). [...] By Doug Lionais
The Pension Committee is responsible for overseeing the CBU pension plan. Over the past few years there have been some requests to include at least some ‘ethical’ or ‘green’ funds into the investment mix for CBU. Our pension [...] By Michael Manson Research, Technology Transfer, and Commercialization The section of the report that deals with research opens with what is at best a myopic statement: “the gains to society, at least those that can be quantified, from teaching accrue in large measure to those who receive it and only a portion of the benefits may be argued to be spillovers to society at large” (137). In general, the report privileges applied over basic research, what Dr. O’Neill refers to as curiosity-driven research, and appears to favour research that can be commercialized. Thus, he pays little more than lip service [...] |
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