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PREAMBLE

The Employer and the Union recognize that the major purposes of Brandon University are:

• to provide a facility for higher education;
• to provide students with an environment in which they may develop intellectually, emotionally and socially;
• to promote the pursuit, advancement, and dissemination of truth and knowledge;
• to serve the community; and
• to encourage a climate of freedom, responsibility, and mutual respect in the pursuit of these goals.

The Parties agree, in the furtherance of these aims, to promote harmonious relations and, should any misunderstandings or disputes arise, to attempt to settle them peacefully and co-operatively.