LUMUN

The Faculty of Engineering, with the consent of Faculty Relations and LUMUN, has recently posted an advertisement for per-course instructors for the Winter semester.

http://www.engr.mun.ca/home/Per_Course_Instructors.php

The deadline for applications is 22 November.

Please consider attending LUMUN’s AGM this coming Friday.  The meeting will last approximately one hour and will be followed by a reception.

WHAT:  Annual General Meeting of the Lecturers’ Union of MUN (of which you are currently a member) + Reception

WHEN:  Friday, 4 November, at 5 p.m.

WHERE:  the Sally Davis Seminar Room in the Science Building (SN-4087)

WHO:  All LUMUN members, whether or not you have signed a blue membership card!

During the meeting you will hear brief reports from the President, the Treasurer, the auditor who recently completed the first audit of LUMUN’s finances, and a member of the committee investigating a potential affiliation with CAUT (see below).

The meeting will also include an election of these positions on the Executive Board:

President

1^st Vice-President

2^nd Vice-President

Treasurer

Secretary

If you would like to run for a position on the Executive Board, the Nomination Process is quite simple:

1. Ensure that you’re a member in good standing by submitting a completed blue LUMUN membership card.  These were recently distributed to mailboxes around campus and will also be available at the AGM.

2. Submit a Nomination Form (2011-nomination-form-for-lumun-elections), signed by you and by two other LUMUN members in good standing.  These forms are also available at the LUMUN office (Earth Sciences Building, Room ER-4052) and will be available at the AGM.  Nomination forms may be submitted up to and including the commencement of the AGM, as per LUMUN’s Constitution.

Our first Collective Agreement with MUN will expire on 31 August 20112.  The LUMUN Executive would like to hear about the kinds of issues affecting you as a Per-Course Instructor at MUN and what you would like LUMUN to press for during the next round of negotiations.

MEMBERSHIP IN CAUT:  Would you like your union to become a member of Canada’s premier faculty association, the Canadian Association of University Teachers?  We will discuss this issue at the AGM.  Members in good standing will vote on whether or not LUMUN should join CAUT.

For further information about this association, please read the attached Report on CAUT membership  (lumun-report-on-caut-membership1) and visit CAUT’s website (www.caut.ca).

Do come out to the AGM and let your voice be heard.

A winter storm watch has been issued covering the time of our AGM (http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?nl21#nl21-935cwhx-021300). Unfortunately, catering arrangements demand that we give the company that services the University 24 hours notice of cancellation. With, “significant snowfall accumulations with amounts possibly exceeding 10 centimetres … forecast for Friday,” the distinct possibility that the University will close, the cost that the Union would incur in cancelling less than 24 hours before the event, and the difficulties this might present to our members who wish to attend; the LUMUN Executive has decided to postpone the Annual General Meeting until next Friday, November 3 from 5-7 in the same location as previously set (SN-4087, tentative).

We will confirm the details of this in the next few days.