We, the undersigned full-time faculty and librarians stand in strong solidarity with Laurier’s contract faculty and support their struggle for better and more equitable working conditions. 

Contract faculty play a vital role at Laurier, in delivering courses, supporting students and programs, and upholding the university's academic mission. Current working conditions for contract faculty are unfair and inequitable, demonstrating a lack of regard for their contributions.   

Contract faculty teach over 50% of students for a mere 5% of Laurier’s budget.  More than 2/3 of contract faculty earn their entire income teaching at Laurier, many teaching the equivalent of a full-time teaching load. Yet they earn half of what full-time faculty are paid for teaching the same courses, and they must endure precarious employment “on contract” for decades.  The majority of contract faculty do not have access to Laurier’s pension, and they are the only group of employees on Laurier’s campuses who are consistently denied university-paid benefits.   

As full-time faculty and librarians, we often take for granted the kinds of job security, benefits, and opportunities for advancement that contract faculty fight for during every collective agreement negotiation. Contract faculty deserve better compensation; they deserve university-paid benefits; they deserve better access to the Laurier pension plan; they deserve job security.  They deserve more respect from the University for the essential work they do for students, for our programs and faculties, and for their professions.  

To contract faculty at Laurier: We see you. We value you. We respect you. We support you in this fight. 

To Laurier Administration:  You have a responsibility to meet your equity commitments and to set an example as a fair and equitable place to work. You have the ability and responsibility to negotiate a decent and equitable collective agreement with contract faculty.  

The demands contract faculty are making are reasonable and we call on the Administration to live up to its equity commitments by ensuring decent working and learning conditions for everyone at this institution.      

Message from the WLUFA President regarding CF negotiations 

More information on contract faculty negotiations  

Sincerely,  

Joanne Oud, Library

Marcia Oliver, Law & Society

Michelle Goodridge, Library

Dillon Moore, Library

Alexandra Boutros, Communication & Cultural Studies

Andrea Brown, Political Science

Laura Pin, Assistant Professsor, Political Science Department

Kim Rygiel, Political Science, Faculty of Arts

Dejan Guzina, Political Science

Penelope Ironstone, Department of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies

Derek Hall, Political Science

Pauline Dewan, Library

Debra Langan, Dept. of Criminology

Greg Bird, Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Vanessa Oliver, Youth and Children's Studies

Alex Latta, Global Studies

Scott Gallimore, Archaeology

Maritt Kirst, Psychology

Katherine Spring, English & Film Studies

Dr Hillary Pimlott, Communication Studies

Shoshana Pollack, Faculty of Social Work

Jasmin Zine, Professor, Sociology/Religion & Culture

Bruce Gillespie, Digital Media and Journalism

Jenna Hennebry, Women and Gender Studies/CS/SIPG

Tarah Brookfield, History & Youth and Children Studies

Dr. Percy Lezard, Assistant Professor, Program Coordinator, Indigenous Studies Program

Steve Wilcox, Game Design and Development

Alison Blay-Palmer, GES

Ali Zaidi, Global Studies

Jonathan Finn, Communication Studies

Andrew Herman Associate Professor Communication Studies

Judith Nicholson, Associate Professor, Communication Studies

Rob Kristofferson, History

Loren King, Political Science

Alicia Sliwinski, Global Studies

Maryam Khan, Faculty of Social Work

Matt Thomas, Library

Lucy Luccisano, Sociology

Margaret Walton-Roberts, Geography and Environmental Studies

Janet McLaughlin, Community Health

Sara Matthews, Program Coordinator, Anthropology

Katrin Roots, Criminology Department

Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Law and Society

Jennifer Root, Faculty of Social Work

Lisa Wood, Youth & Children's Studies and Brantford English

Glenda Wall, Sociology

Cameron McKenzie, Faculty of Social Work

Ann Curry-Stevens, Faculty of Social Work

Stacey Hannem, Professor, Department of Criminology 

Sonia Meerai, Faculty of Social Work 

Todd Gordon, Law & Society

Rebecca Godderis, Community Health

Danielle Law, Youth and Children's Studies & Psychology

Garry Potter, Sociology

Anh Ngo, Faculty of Social Work

Ellen Russell/ Digital Media and Journalism

Greig de Peuter, Communication Studies

Barbara Jenkins, Communication Studies

Debora VanNijnatten, Political Science/North American Studies

Nathan Rambukkana, Communication Studies

Peter Urquhart, Communication Studies

Ian Roderick, Communication Studies

Azim Essaji, Economics

Zilin Wang, Mathematics

Connell McCluskey, Mathematics

Kevin Spooner, North American Studies/History

Jeffrey Aguinaldo, Department of Sociology

Brian McCaig, Economics

Michael Woodford, Faculty of Social Work

Melody Morton Ninomiya, Health Sciences

Dana Sawchuk, Sociology

Ke Pang, Economics

Jay Roy, Political Science & North American Studies

Christine Neill, Economics

Manuel Riemer, Psychology

Scott Smith, Chemistry

Steve MacNeil, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Izabela Steflja, Political Science

Masoud Jelokhani-Niaraki, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Lee Willingham, Faculty of Music

Lillian DeBruin, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Sandra Annett, Film Studies

Brenda Murphy, Social and Environmental Justice

Timothy Donais, Global Studies

Tamas Dobozy/English + Film Studies

Min Kaur, Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts 

Lianne Leddy, History

Lynn Shakinovsky, English

Tanis MacDonald, English and Film Studies

Jorg Broschek, Political Science

Robin Waugh, English and Film Studies

Vladimir Kitaev, Chemistry and Biochemistry 

Ann Marie Beals, Community Psychology