Attn: Queen’s Faculty Relations Office
Mark Green, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic)
Patrick Deane Principal and Vice-Chancellor

We are writing to you as members of QUFA to affirm our support for the bargaining demands of PSAC local 901.

Members of PSAC 901 are our fellow researchers and educators at Queen’s. We recognize their labour as essential to the University’s operations and to maintaining our status as one of the top-ranked institutions in the country. The significant contributions of our graduate student colleagues have helped to keep Queen’s operational throughout the pandemic. Yet, we also  recognize that the difficult working conditions under COVID-19 have reinforced and worsened the precarious nature of graduate student labour.

As instructors and researchers we are concerned with the resistance the administration has shown to PSAC 901’s demands for guarantees around preventive and responsive mental health supports. As Queen’s seeks to advance a broad Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity agenda, we are also concerned that the administration has not yet agreed to the provision of, and fair compensation for, mandatory  anti-racism and sexual violence prevention training that this broader agenda requires.

Mental health support guarantees, paid and mandatory training in anti-racism and sexual violence prevention  are important and reasonable demands to help ameliorate the workplace climate of graduate student employees at Queen’s. Such measures would be of benefit to all members of the Queen’s community and  are essential for achieving important  institutional EDII goals.

We understand that Queen’s is suggesting that negotiation of certain issues be postponed  until the next round of bargaining because of the current pandemic situation. But these are long-standing issues that the  pandemic has made more pressing . Graduate student workers are in immediate need of support. Now is the time to address mental health issues and to take concrete steps to address the well-documented racism and sexual violence at Queen’s.
 
We strongly urge you to negotiate a fair deal with PSAC Local 901.

Sincerely,

Adams, Mary Louise - Professor, Kinesiology and Health Studies
Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Grace - Assistant Professor, GNDS & GPPL
Airton, Lee - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
baba, h. burcu - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Baker, Rachael - Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning
Bertrand, Karine -  Associate professor, Film and Media
Bonier, Fran - Associate Professor, Biology
Bouka, Yolande - Assistant Professor, Political Studies
Bruno-Jofre, Rosa -  Professor, Faculty of Education
Burke, Frank - Adjunct, Film and Media
Butler, Nancy- Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Cappello, Alicia  - Librarian
Castleden, Heather -  Associate Professor, Geography and Planning
Chapple, Elliot - Adjunct, Cultural Studies
Chin-Sang, Ian - Professor, Biology
Chippindale, Adam - Professor, Biology
Cohen, Dan - Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning
Colautti, Robert - Associate Professor, Biology
Cordoba, Diana - Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies
Csergő, Zsuzsa - Professor, Political Studies
Davies, Jacqueline - Associate Professor (Cont. Adj.), Philosophy
diCenzo, George - Assistant Professor, Biology
Duchesne, Paul - Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Dunfield, Jana - Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Eckert, Christopher - Professor, Biology
Fachinger, Petra - Professor, Department of English
Fichtinger, Gabor - Professor, School of Computing
Friedman, Jannice - Associate Professor, Biology
Gauthier, Philippe - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film and Media
Giles, Anthony - Adjunct, Employment Relations
Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth - Professor, Political Studies
Greenfield, Richard - Professor, History
Grogan, Paul - Professor, Biology
Grossutti, Christine - Adjunct, Geography and Planning
Guerrero, Adonay - Adjunct, Film and Media
Hall, Rebecca - Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies
Hand, Martin - Associate Professor, Sociology
Hanniman, Kyle - Assistant Professor, Political Studies
Hanson, Elizabeth - Professor, English
Hickey, Robert -  Associate Professor, Employment Relations
Hill, Emily M. - Associate Professor, Department of History
Holzschuh, Monika - Faculty, LLCU
Houghtaling, Melissa - Assistant Professor/Adjunct, Gender Studies
Howe, Graeme - Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Husain, Adnan - Associate Professor, History
Kukreja, Reena - Global Development Studies
Latimer-Cheung, Amy - Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Leath, Jennifer S. - Assistant Professor, School of Religion
Lee, Eun-Young - Assistant Professor, Kinesiology & Health Studies
Little, Margaret- Full Professor, Political Studies and Gender Studies
Lord, Susan - Professor, Film and Media
MacKenzie, Scott - Professor and Head, Film and Media
Manning, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii - Assistant Professor, Queen’s National Scholar in Anishinaabe Knowledge, Language and Culture, Dept of Philosophy & Cultural Studies
Martel, Stéphanie - Assistant Professor, Political Studies
Martin, Luc - Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health Studies
McDonald, David - Professor, Global Development Studies
McGarry, John - Professor, Political Studies
McIntire, Gabrielle - Professor, English
McKay, Spencer - Adjunct, Political Studies
McKegney, Sam - Professor and Head, English
McKittrick, Katherine - Professor, Gender Studies 
McNeil, Daniel - Professor, Gender Studies
Menotti, Gabriel - Assistant Professor, Film & Media
Moore, Margaret - Professor, Political Studies
Moore, Steven - Assistant Professor, Smith School of Business
Morehead, Allison - Associate Professor, Art History and Art Conservation
Morelli, Jordan - Professor, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy
Morgensen, Scott - Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Moriah, Kristin - Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature
Mosurinjohn, Sharday - Assistant Professor, School of Religion
Murakami Wood, David - Associate Professor, Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Sociology
Na, Ali - Assistant Professor, Film and Media
Naaman, Dorit - Professor, Film and Media
Pelstring, Emily - Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Film and Media
Pillay, Thashika - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
Pappano, Margaret - Associate Professor, English
Pasolli, Lisa - Assistant Professor, History
Prouse, Carolyn - Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning
Romba, Katherine - Assistant Professor, Art History and Art Conservation
Rudie, Karen - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutherford, Scott - Continuing Adjunct/Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies
Ruwe, Dalitso - Assistant Professor of Black Political Thought, Philosophy
Sadavoy, Sarah - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy
Salah, Trish - Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Gender Studies
Salverson, Julie - Professor, Dan School of Drama and Music
Salzmann, Ariel - Associate Professor, History
Shulist, Sarah - Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Smart, Carolyn - Professor, English
Soederberg, Susanne - Professor, Global Development Studies
Sypnowich, Christine - Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy
Straker, Scott-Morgan- Associate Professor, English
Straznicky, Marta - Professor, English
Tienhaara, Kyla - Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Studies/Department of Global Development Studies
Tomac, Ayca - Adjunct/Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies/Cultural Studies
Tomasone, Jennifer - Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Vena, Dan - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film and Media
von Hlatky, Stéfanie - Associate Professor, Queen's University
Wehlau, Ruth - Assistant Professor, English
Weinberg, Bradley R.- Assistant Professor, Employment Relations
Willmott, Glenn - Professor, English
Xavier, M. Shobhana - Assistant Professor, School of Religion 

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