All the Best of the Season to You and Yours
BUFA wishes our members a smooth end of term and a safe and restful holiday season!
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BU READY Safety App
Whether it’s extreme weather, a power outage, or any unexpected campus disruption, the BU Ready app helps students, faculty, and staff stay prepared, informed, and safe. It offers clear guidance on emergency procedures, connects you with vital safety resources, and empowers you to act quickly and confidently when things don’t go as planned. In short:
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Get to Know your BUFA Equity Committee
The role of the BUFA Equity Committee is to advise the Vice-President – Equity and the BUFA Executive on actions, policies, and positions BUFA may adopt in relation to activities, bargaining, strategic priorities, or any other consideration the Executive may take up in relation to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and Indigenization within the Association
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Fair Employment Week: Time to Stand Up for Contract Faculty
Each year, Fair Employment Week shines a spotlight on the precarious and often overlooked working conditions experienced by contract academic staff (CAS). The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Make It Fair campaign positions FEW as more than a symbolic moment — it’s an opportunity to galvanize support, change public conversations, and strengthen collective bargaining
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Call to Action: Federal Budget 2025
Today, David Robinson, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) shared this dire warning with all faculty unions in Canada: On November 4, Prime Minister Mark Carney will introduce a federal budget. It has been widely telegraphed that the budget will enact 15% cuts across all federal departments over three years. If
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Truth and Reconciliation Day, 2025
🧡 Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the children who never made it back home and support residential school Survivors, their families, and communities. Today (and all days), we must learn, remember, and reflect. This isn’t just about the past, but about the lingering legacies of the residential schools system
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Town Hall Report
BUFA’s recent Town Hall took place on September 9, 2025 4:45 p.m. in CHO 212 and on Zoom. For those who missed it, here is an outline of the discussion that took place. Gautam Srivastava, BUFA President, spoke on the following topics on the minds of BUFA members and asked members for feedback, suggestions and
Make Your Voice Heard: BUFA Town Hall
Don’t forget to mark your calendar! There’s a BUFA Town Hall on Tuesday, September 9 in CHO 212 on campus. Need a Zoom link to join remotely? Contact the BUFA Office to register for a link. Hope to see you then!
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Welcome to BUFA’s Blog!
By Gautam Srivastava, BUFA President Welcome all members and onlookers to BUFA’s first ever blog accompanied by BUFA’s first ever blog post. The purpose of this blog is to create forum where interested members can keep up to date with BUFA’s regular activities and issues of concern. Communication and transparency are BUFA priorities, and this
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