Humber Faculty Survey

Data collected: March 2010

1. What did you think about the information sent to you from the UNION side during the negotiations and the two votes?

 

Response

Percent

Response

Count

Too detailed

7.4%

19

Right amount of detail

22.5%

58

Not detailed enough

29.1%

75

Too simple

16.3%

42

Too complex

9.7%

25

Too little

12.4%

32

Too much

13.2%

34

Right amount of material

9.7%

25

answered question

258

skipped question

21

 

 

2. How informed did you feel regarding the issues?

 

Very informed

Adequately informed

Poorly informed

Rating

Average

Response

Count

Modified Workload Arrangements

16.5% (34)

44.2% (91)

39.3% (81)

2.23

206

Salary

47.2% (102)

39.4% (85)

13.4% (29)

1.66

216

Academic freedom

19.4% (37)

38.7% (74)

41.9% (80)

2.23

191

Input into choice of evaluation method

17.8% (33)

45.9% (85)

36.2% (67)

2.18

185

Collegiality

17.3% (33)

41.9% (80)

40.8% (78)

2.24

191

Partial load issues

16.4% (35)

41.3% (88)

42.3% (90)

2.26

213

 

 

 

Other (please specify)

85

 

 

 

answered question

265

 

 

 

skipped question

14

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3. Throughout these negotiations, we delivered much of our material through email. In future, what is your preferred mode of delivery?

 

Response

Percent

Response

Count

Email

89.0%

242

Printed material in your office mailbox

17.3%

47

Small discussion groups eg. In individual schools

16.2%

44

Large group meetings with speakers eg. in 7th semester

13.6%

37

answered question

272

skipped question

7

 


 

4. If you voted to ACCEPT management’s offer, please identify your reasons for doing so:

 

Very Important

Important

Not important

Rating

Average

Response

Count

To avoid a strike

83.4% (136)

12.3% (20)

4.3% (7)

1.21

163

Due to the current economic situation

69.8% (111)

22.6% (36)

7.5% (12)

1.38

159

I didn't think it would impact my workload

37.4% (55)

38.8% (57)

23.8% (35)

1.86

147

I am retiring soon and this won’t have much effect on me

6.8% (8)

5.1% (6)

88.1% (104)

2.81

118

Other (please specify)

79

answered question

169

skipped question

110

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5. If you voted to REJECT management’s offer, please identify your reasons for doing so:

 

Very Important

Important

Not important

Rating

Average

Response

Count

Concerns re workload issues

78.9% (71)

15.6% (14)

5.6% (5)

1.27

90

Proposed salary increases were too small

22.0% (18)

29.3% (24)

48.8% (40)

2.27

82

Concerns re academic freedom

52.3% (45)

30.2% (26)

17.4% (15)

1.65

86

Concerns re input into evaluation factors

55.8% (48)

30.2% (26)

14.0% (12)

1.58

86

Nothing on partial load issues

35.4% (28)

29.1% (23)

35.4% (28)

2.00

79

Other (please specify)

24

answered question

97

skipped question

182

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6. What was the priority issue for you in this last round of negotiations?

 

Response

Percent

Response

Count

answered question

211

skipped question

68

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7. Which situation best describes your situation at Humber:

 

Response

Percent

Response

Count

Full time

70.4%

193

Partial load

23.0%

63

Within 5 years of retirement?

12.4%

34

Within the first 5 years of employment at Humber?

9.9%

27

Been at Humber more than 5 years and also more than 5 years from retirement?

21.9%

60

answered question

274

skipped question

5

 

8. If you could deliver a message to each of the groups below, what would it be?

 

Response

Percent

Response

Count

Our local executive

82.9%

170

Our negotiating team

74.1%

152

OPSEU

70.7%

145

Humber College

63.4%

130

College negotiating team

59.0%

121

The provincial government

60.5%

124

answered question

205

skipped question

74

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