Daily Bulletin, Friday, November 4, 1994

SOCIAL CONTRACT:  Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water,
the fine print of the Social Contract salary reductions is back.  The new
development: an arbitrator has ruled that UW can't take pay deductions
from about 100 people who work here now or have worked here some time since
the Social Contract started in the summer of 1993.

The change affects a few of the employees who are covered by the "Non-Regular
Employee Plan", for people who aren't regular staff, unionized staff, 
or regular faculty.  The plan covers staff on temporary appointments, 
"casual" staff, visiting professors, and post-doctoral fellows.

Nearly all non-regular employees are exempt from the Social Contract,
which doesn't affect people earning less than $30,000 a year.  About 150
of the "thousands" of non-regular employees are above the $30,000 level,
says Catharine Scott, director of human resources.  Of those 150, perhaps
50 are paid from UW's regular budget, and the Social Contract cuts 
continue to affect them.

But the remaining 100 are paid from other sources, chiefly research grants
and contracts.  The provincial arbitrator, ruling on a complaint from
one of those people, has ordered that they are not to suffer Social Contract 
pay cuts, because "deductions from this group do not directly affect the 
expenditure reduction target set for the University by the Ontario government."

The money deducted from their pay since September 1993 will be refunded
this month.  Most staff were losing 1.7 per cent of their pay to the
Social Contract in 1993-94 and are losing 0.4 per cent in the current year.

Yesterday the provost sent a memo to all departments explaining what
has happened, and attaching a copy of the arbitrator's decision.  The
memo and attached texts can also be seen on UWinfo -- look under Documents.

AT FED HALL:  Should be quite a party at Federation Hall on Saturday 
night.  Jason King of the "Waveform Transmission Collective", which is
sponsoring the event, notes that Fed Hall will be open until 3 a.m. with
"guest DJs from Toronto, cool lights, lots of sound, smart bar, and
underground dance music".

SPORTS WEEKEND:  It's all away games this weekend for the Athenas and the
Warriors.  If you hear cheering from Seagram Stadium on Saturday, that'll
be Laurier playing Western for the Yates Cup, the Ontario football
championship.  

Warrior basketballers are at Ryerson; Athena basketballers are at the
Carleton Invitational tournament all weekend.  The hockey Warriors play
at Brock on Friday night and York on Saturday night.

COMING EVENTS:  John English, MP for Kitchener (and on leave as a UW
history professor), gives the Faculty of Arts Lecture on Monday evening
at 7:30 in the Humanities Theatre.  English will speak on "Canada and
the Canadian Question: Revised Edition".  Admission is free.

Ursula Franklin, prominent Toronto physicist, will be at UW November 15
to give the first public lecture presented by the new Canada Trust/
Walter Bean Visiting Professorship.  She'll speak on "Environments Versus
Nature".  Location: Arts Lecture room 113.  Time: 4 p.m.

Homecoming happens November 11-13, with the usual events and celebrations,
from the "Big Tent" beside Fed Hall, for drinks and dancing, to the
Saturday morning fun run sponsored by applied health sciences, and the
27th annual Naismith basketball tournament.  Details were in this week's
Gazette; call ext. 2038 for information and tickets.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca