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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

AU’s ergo program symptomatic of organizational dysfunction

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Almost 100% of staff at Athabasca University (AU) work from home, at least part of the time. This is up from about 50% prior to COVID. The s...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

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Netflix is currently airing a documentary titled Money Shot: The Pornhub Story . This documentary examines, among other things, the way in w...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Athabasca U staff engagement results are predictably terrible

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This morning, Athabasca University released some of the results from its Autumn 2022 staff survey. The survey was about staff engagement, en...
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Monday, February 20, 2023

UNA staffers change bargaining agents

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Two weeks ago, 45 staff members at the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) voted to leave the Steelworkers Union and be represented by the Union ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Inventive framing of grievances

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Typically, when we teach undergraduate students about grievances and rights arbitration, we assume the alleged breach of the contract is obv...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Research: Grievance Arbitration Project

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Back in November , I posted a bit about a research project I’m involved with that is looking at grievance-arbitration decisions in Alberta. ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

AU sacks its president, but problems continue

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Yesterday, Athabasca University terminated the employment of its president , Peter Scott, and appointed the dean of health disciplines as it...