News

After months of anticipation and speculation, the University has released its updated Flexible and Hybrid Work Guidelines and we can discuss concretely what it entails.

We recognize that this might be a significant adjustment for some of you and have ripple effects throughout your life. We ask all members—and all members of our campus community—to be supportive of one another over the next few months as this rolls out.

We shared staff perspectives on what an ideal hybrid work approach could look like in our recent Hybrid and Flexible Work Survey report. Today, we're focusing on the University's guidelines and what they mean for you.

Meet the candidates in the 2025 UWSA elections. There are two candidates for president and nine for director, with five open seats on the board. 

Notes about why you should feel empowered to run for the board or president, gathering member input on our MoA, and more on flexible and hybrid work guidelines.

The UWSA Governance and Nominating Committee is seeking nominations for five UWSA directors and the next UWSA president.

Waterloo Womxn + Nonbinary Wednesdays collected questions from its members about the University's budget restrictions—and has graciously shared the answers they received with us!

Updates on cooling issues, updating our Memorandum of Agreement, labour relations, the University Pension Plan, and, of course, the flexible work guidelines.

In her president’s report last week, Lisa shared what we know about potential changes to remote work guidelines and invited members to complete a survey on hybrid and flexible work. Here's what we've learned since then.

Meetings with senior leaders, meeting members, and gathering staff input about flexible work arrangements and remote work.

More information about changes to performance recognition, salary increases, and the Nous Uniforum survey, plus the slides from our Navigating Job Loss workshop.

The UWSA Board of Directors called an election on March 28 to fill four director vacancies. Only three nominations were submitted by the deadline on April 10, so an election is not required; Mifrah Abid, Lewis Fraser, and Sarah Landy will be acclaimed as directors, effective immediately, for remainder of the vacant terms.

To learn more about the role of the Board of Directors, please read our ‘UWSA 101’ series and our page on Being a UWSA Director.