AUFA: Acadia University Faculty Association

The New Brunswick government has imposed a two-year wage freeze on base salaries for all management and non-unionized employees from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2011. As for unionized employees, all signed collective agreements will be honoured, but upon expiration will be renegotiated for two-year terms with no increases during that period.

Finance Minister Victor Boudreau is calling on universities, which ““receive significant financial support from New Brunswick taxpayers,” to “take the appropriate steps to manage their wage bills in a manner similar to the province.” He has warned that “grants to universities and municipalities will be adjusted in future years to reflect this expectation” and that his government is prepared to “introduce legislation limiting the wage increases that can be obtained through collective bargaining negotiation to zero per cent.”