Category: ASPA Updates

AGM Election Results!

ASPA is pleased to announce the winners of our annual Executive election!  

We are pleased to welcome Dawn Giesbrecht, Erica Li-Humen, Evan Potts, John Costa, Julie Maier, and LaVina Watts as our new 2024-2025 team. 

Thank you to all our members that took the time to vote in this year’s election. We received 710 votes in total (237 more votes than last year!). 

We would also like to thank all 23 members who let their names stand. We hope you will continue to show interest in supporting ASPA in the future. 

Be on the lookout for future posts announcing the new President, Vice Presidents, and Treasurer.  

2024 ASPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE OF MEETING

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION (ASPA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Health Sciences Theatre 1130, E Wing

1:30 pm (Call to order)

Please note: Zoom polls may be used during the meeting. Some devices may need to be updated to view polls.

Click the links below to access documents related to the Annual General Meeting.

AGM Agenda 2024.04.17
AGM Minutes 2023.04.19
Executive Nominations 2024
election of officers 2024
ASPA Audited financials for fiscal year 2023-2024
ASPA Approved budget 2024-2025
ASPA Committee reports fiscal year 2023-2024
aspa executive list 2023-2024
ASPA Committee members list 2023-2024
ASPA President’s report

ASPA Wins Preliminary Hearing for the Judicial Review Regarding Work of the Bargaining Unit

On February 28, 2024, ASPA went before The Honorable Justice Crooks and successfully argued the application for judicial review was premature and therefore should be dismissed. ASPA has contacted the University to set up a meeting between the parties to discuss the possibilities for damages and your hopeful settlement on this issue. Once those discussions have occurred ASPA will be informing the membership to inform them of next steps.

ASPA respects the decision of The Honorable Justice Crooks and appreciates all those involved in fighting for our membership rights. This is another significant win for our membership. We respect those affected by this delayed process and we promise to do our best to keep all informed.

Lastly, I thank and appreciate all the effort but forward by the current Executive, Past-President, Lavina Watts, Past -Vice President Chris O’Grady, and the retired Memeber Services Officer Darcy Hiryn-Bird for all the hours put into making this a success for all.

“Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people.” – Samuel Gompers

In Solidarity,

Glenn Billingsley

Benefits Reminder

It’s time to think about your “use it or lose it!” benefits!

 With the end of the calendar year fast approaching, please don’t forget about the various benefits available to you that may be expiring soon. These include: 

  • Your allotment for various medical claims through SunLife. These renew on January 1st, and any unclaimed amounts cannot be carried over to the next calendar year. This includes paramedical benefits, like massage therapy, counselling, and chiropractor (note that vision care is a bit different, and renews on the second year following a claim). More info on your SunLife health plan. 
  • Your Flexible Spending Program benefits (i.e., the Health Spending Account or Personal Spending Account). The annual amount ($900) carries forward for 1 calendar year, meaning if you have any ammounts left from 2022 you need to use them by December 31, 2023, and If unspent cannot be used towards eligible purchases (although you can still submit claims after January 1st). The PSA amount can be used on a wide variety of expenses, including online music subscriptions, traditional medicines, transit passes, pet care, and even RRSP/TFSA contributions! More info on the Flexible Spending Program. 
  • Your three (3) Personal/Family days. These are for emergent, personal or family situations, and do not roll over from one year to the next. See Section 20.9 in the ASPA Collective Agreement. 

Remember also that your choice of allocation for the Flexible Spending Program needs to be made before the end of the year. This will allow you to select to place money either towards the Health Spending Account (HAS, non-taxable) or the Personal Spending Account (PSA, taxable). More info on allocating funds to your Flexible Spending account. 

2023 ASPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE OF MEETING

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION (ASPA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Health Sciences Theatre 1150, E Wing

1:30 pm (Call to order)

Please note: Zoom polls may be used during the meeting. Some devices may need to be updated to view polls.

Click the links below to access documents related to the Annual General Meeting.

AGM Agenda 2023.04.19
AGM Minutes 2022.04.20
Executive Nominations 2023
election of officers 2023
ASPA Audited financials for fiscal year 2022-2023
ASPA Approved budget 2023-2024
ASPA Committee reports fiscal year 2022-2023
aspa executive list 2022-2023
ASPA Committee members list 2022-2023

ASPA President and Vice-President’s

President

LaVina Watts has been selected as ASPA President for the 2022-2023 year. LaVina was one of the Vice-Presidents for three years before being elected as President. She works in the College of Arts & Science as the Manager for Study Abroad and Interdisciplinary Programs. LaVina has made some meaningful connections with the University leadership and hopes to bring that experience and knowledge to the role of president and to serve you and your interests as our members.

You may contact LaVina at aspa_president@aspasask.ca or aspa@aspasask.ca

Vice-President (1)

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2022 ASPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPERVISORY

PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION (ASPA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday, APRIL 20 2022 VIA ZOOM

1:30 pm (Call to order)

Please note: Zoom polls will be used during the meeting. Some devices may need to be updated to view polls.

ASPA AGM Agenda 2022Download
ASPA AGM Minutes 2021Download
ASPA Representative Letter (Signed) 2021-2022 Fiscal YearDownload
ASPA Audited Finacial Statements (Signed) 2021-2022 Fiscal YearDownload
ASPA Profit-Loss Financial Report for 2021-2022Download
ASPA Approved Budget 2022-2023Download
ASPA AGM Committee Reports 2021-2022Download
ASPA Executive List 2021-2022Download
ASPA Committee Member List 2021-2022Download

Grievance Update

ASPA continues to have several open grievances, eighteen (18) to be exact.  To date, of those eighteen (18); ten (10) were filed in 2020.  This compares to the eight (8) and nineteen (19) filed in 2019 and 2018, respectively.  We have however over the recent months been able to resolve a few the grievances related to the Employer’s failure to deduct Association dues.  Many of these grievances have been resolved by having positions moved within the scope of ASPA that were not previously in any bargaining unit.  The theme of the other bulk of our grievances relate to the assertion that the employer has wrongfully laid off a member.

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2020 ASPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPERVISORY

PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION (ASPA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 2020 VIA ZOOM VIDEO MEETING

2:00 pm (Call to order)

Click a the links below to access documents related to the Annual General Meeting.
ASPA AGM Agenda 2020Download
ASPA Approved Budget for 2020-21Download
Representative Letter (Signed) 2019-20Download
Signed Financial Statement for ASPA 2019-20 Fiscal YearDownload
Profit-Loss Financial Report for 2019-20 Fiscal Year – AuditedDownload
ASPA Executive List 2019-20Download
ASPA Committee Member List 2019-20Download
ASPA AGM Committee Reports 2019-20Download
AGM Minutes 2019Download