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the university is posting information provided by public health units on positive cases of covid 19 amongst waterloo
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a new online dashboard will track confirmed positive cases and keep a complete record of cases as they're reported
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president hamdullahpu says, "we will continue to follow public health guidance on specific cases to ensure that every individual at risk of infection knows what to do."
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reporting on positive cases, the university will seek to protect the private health information of individuals.
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you should check the disclosure protocol for what to do if someone reveals to you that they've tested positive for covid. 19
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public health units have confirmed a total of five positive cases of employees or students who visited campus.
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region of waterloo public health informed the university of one individual from our community who tested positive for covid-19.
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the individual is in self isolation and public health officials are in the process of contacting relevant close contacts.
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...must first complete the covid-19 self-assessment online.
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self-assessment is only meant as an aid and cannot diagnose you with covid-19.
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contact your healthcare provider or your local public health unit.
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remember warriors, protect warriors. we're all in this together.
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...you listening. it may have been a while since you last came to the waterloo campus-
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,...but the next time you visit via the university avenue entrance, you will see that the new welcome sign is decked out in a three piece suit.
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yes. the welcome sign at our south campus entrance is now a towering three piece structure fashioned from aluminum and glass, and creates a unique aesthetic and signature look that-
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the new welcome sign and wayfinding program are both designed to improve the arrival and navigation experience for visitors to our campus.
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future phases of the program will include interior and digital wayfinding.
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remember that no matter where you go, there you are.
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you are cordially invited to join the university of wiley partnership with the kitchener public library.
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for an online community lecture entitled america votes.
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i've heard october described as an october surprise advent calendar.
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because that's how it's going.
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as our neighbors to the south prepare for their november election-
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... political and economic impacts for canada and the world.
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the event is free but you must register in advance.
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even though it's october, i'm still not ready for that particular f word.
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i hear you. this is the second of a three year reading break pilot.
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assignment due dates and other course components will not be scheduled during fall reading week. but-
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any travel regardless of the distance, is risky for you and your loved ones. in his memo to students this week-
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president hunteloper urges students to keep their social bubbles small and to stay safe wherever there-
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as resident spaces do not meet quarantine requirements and therefore put others at risk.
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you must check out the covid 19 travel and quarantine checklist for information on creating a quarantine plan.
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available resources and services and ideas on how they might choose to spend their time off. these student success-
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that said, we hope that students will enjoy their break safely and responsibly.
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while not all faculty and staff will get the reading week off-
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but as always there are a few essential university services that never shut down.
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first up, sarah marsh is a phd student in the department of germanic and slavic studies.
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she spoke with pamela about the campaign to unionize some academic workers at u waterloo and what's behind it.
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a grassroots group students decided to get together and to get the ball rolling.
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research assistants and sessionals who are students as well as non-student sessionals undergraduate academic workers can also join all the-
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both are not the main group for our campaign.
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we're focused on student workers and academic workers.
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... many issues. but the reason i use the word protection is that what a union does is it gives you a-
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... says we want to have a say. we want to be on more equal footing with the university.
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over 50% now of undergraduate teaching is done by non-tenure track faculty at universities in canada and that includes graduate students that-
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... lived experiences of students. we're often told at certain times.
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and so there's a disconnect between the lived experiences of students on the ground.
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... from ontario may not understand their rights and a big part of the union is educating workers about their rights.
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... no sessional who's worked here for seven years and has never had a contract longer than four months or eight months.
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they don't get benefits. i know students who have been.
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pushed around from here to there to everywhere because they can't get accessibility accommodations for their work as a ta.
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and they've reached their hours halfway through the term and they just have to keep working.
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and so all of these things are happening and they're being treated as individual issues.
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not as systemic issues and what a union does is it-
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what is important to us as a group to make those connections, to bridge those gaps.
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so tas have say an agreement at the beginning of their employment period that they'll put in x number of hours?
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basically it's very disparate across different departments.
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others, they don't. we have students who are way under their hours.
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no standard even contract form for outlining the expectations for the ta.
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but every department and faculty kind of does things their own way.
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for unfairness for overwork, where-
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many students who work way beyond their hours because they feel they have to.
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professors are the ones who write their job recommendations and students want to work hard.
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they want to do the work that needs to be done for their taing.
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at 160 hours, which is way higher than many other universities.
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so first of all, what it would do is create transparent standards across the university for how many hours a taship is for what the pay is.
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so basically there would have to be a lot of structures in place to ensure that those contracts are being adhered to. and those structures right now are typically not.
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... there or they're inconsistent. other universities have ways to make sure that students are not working more than their hours for-
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for example, a number of universities have agreed in their bargaining that they have floater tas.
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they'll help with that. they can also help students with disabilities who maybe take longer to-
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... do the same tasks, so they need some backup, you know?
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and then you also have students who are working less-
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... maybe, who are then being held responsible and being forced to-
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we can give examples, but it's important to know that we are a group of students who are not elected once the unionization happens.
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so we can give things that we think are issues-
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... but fundamentally it has to be a democratic process of seeing this is what we agree is a priority for us. and right now it's hard to say because we don't have-
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and part of the union is to get together and really say, okay.
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how is it in every single department? so for sessionals, the job security is very much one of the key issues i would suspect. i've worked as a-
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... sessional, so i can say that from my personal experience. also, benefits. for graduate students-
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... i would just say there are some patterns.
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but a lot of the issues are really dependent on the department for-
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department by department but the overwhelming thing for us is clarity and consistency.
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... accountability, like i said, for the number of hours you're working-
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... you would lose your funding and then have to apply for a grant, which has a few aspects that are restrictive. but quite a few students can get the grant.
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... usually because you don't have enough hours. and the problem with the system right now that i see is that it's in-
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four month chunk schedules. they might come one week into the term or...or
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... there's not a lot of flexibility there.
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and it also means going on a leave.
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... is a big decision. the issue with parental leave is partly the grants that are offered that are not guaranteed.
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the demand is there and we found that overwhelmingly students are either-
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... so we're really focused on one-on-one conversations-
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... with the pandemic a lot of departments have completely frozen all sessional hirings.
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the pandemic has on the one hand made it harder to reach people, but-
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on the other hand, made it even more urgent because it's exposed that precarity and how many students were really barely hanging on.
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... have symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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i think the suicidal ideation rate is also much higher than-
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bera, [inaudible 00:07:27] weiss and vanderford-
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... called evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education.
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... and they're focused on the academic experience and the experience of graduate students.
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it shouldn't really impact anything the gsa does.
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