Unit 1 Member Recognition & Appreciation Awards
Dear CUPE 4207 Unit 1 Member,
Your Executive Committee would like to share a new initiative that was created for longstanding CUPE 4207 members, and supported by a General Membership vote in Winter 2022.
In 1998, Brock University Instructors, Course Coordinators, Teaching Assistants, Marker/Graders, and Lab Demonstrators became part of a certified bargaining unit to formulate CUPE 4207 Unit 1. Since that time, Unit 1 has continued to grow as university enrollment further expands.
In the 2021-2022 Fall/Winter term, CUPE 4207 Unit 1 had over 1300 members working active contracts, and approximately 800 members without contracts. We have a good size union membership with numerous Unit 1 members who have been working at Brock for many years.
Over the years, the Executive Committee and Unit 1 members continued to notice that Unit 1 members were not recognized for their years of service at Brock University as academic contract workers. Indeed, workplace respect was one of the top priorities that emerged from the recent Bargaining Survey. Each year, numerous Brock employees and staff are acknowledged for their longstanding service, and deservedly so.
However, many Unit 1 members have been working with these same employees and staff members for the same amount of time, and sometimes longer. Although we are academic contract workers who continuously apply to positions each term and year and re-hired, there are many Unit 1 members who have spent many years and decades teaching, facilitating, and evaluating students – without adequate acknowledgment.
We are grateful that the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation has provided a platform to recognize and award the outstanding work that some of our Unit 1 members do. But, rarely are longstanding Unit 1 service contributions acknowledged or recognized in our workplace, despite the importance of seniority in our local union. Unfortunately, that is the nature of precarious academic work.
We know that our work is essential to the University functioning and thriving successfully. Although this might not be fully acknowledged or recognized in the University community, we know that our students appreciate us and our contributions, as do our Unit 1 peers and co-workers. Importantly, the CUPE 4207 Executive Committee appreciates and respects the contributions you made and continue to make in our academic workspace. You have not gone unnoticed.
A longstanding member service recognition and award initiative was created as a way to publicly and formally recognize our longstanding members, their years of service, and the work that they contribute to the University. A ‘Service & Awards Committee’ will continue this initiative yearly, and we hope to celebrate in person next year and make it a special evening dinner event.
This year we are recognizing 173 members who have been with CUPE 4207 Unit 1 and working at Brock University between ten and nineteen years with a certificate of appreciation. Forty-one Unit 1 members have worked twenty or more years at Brock University and will receive a special award of recognition.
On behalf of the CUPE 4207 Executive Committee, I would like to sincerely thank all of our longstanding members for their many years of service to CUPE 4207. We appreciate the work that you do and the contributions you make to the larger academic community.
Sincerely and in solidarity,
Tracy Kennedy, Vice President Unit 1 (Pro-Tem Aug 2022)
and the 2022-2023 CUPE 4207 Executive Committee
CUPE 4207 Unit 1 Service Awards
Over 30 Years
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Susan Jonsson-Ninniss |
Marc James |
Over 25 Years
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Axel Gerhard |
Caroline Stikkelbroeck |
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Caroline Starrs |
Luciano Soligo |
| Mary Campbell |
Pat Moore |
Over 20 years
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John Barkans |
Tracy Kennedy |
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James Bell |
Lena Malloy |
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William Boehlen |
Carole Moss |
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Katharine Book |
Dinah Nichol |
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Nadine Brundrett |
Colleen Pielechaty |
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Suzanne Burchell |
Beatrix Prinsen |
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J. Rodney Bush |
Mitzi Seifried |
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Brigitte Cecckin |
Michael Smith |
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Alisa Cunnington |
Harvey Stevens |
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Michael Curran |
Tammy Stewart |
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Cale Fairchild |
Tracy Stewart |
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Carolyn Finney |
Jane Storie |
| Judith Graham |
Robert Taylor |
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Karen Hofman |
Diane Van Riezen |
| Krista Hrin |
Cornelis VanderMeer |
| Nancy Ihasz |
Timothy White |
10 years to 19 years
| Laura Ricciuto | Jingtao (Teresa) Feng | Maja Milakovic | Zarah Sadruddin |
| Jennifer Ajandi | Monique Finley | Carolyn Mackenzie | Refik Saskin |
| Donna Akrey | Timothy Fowler | Michael MacKinnon | Joe Scaringi |
| Dan Ane | John Futers | Meredith MacLeod | Katja Schirmeister |
| Joshua Augustino | Nathalie Gauthier | Azzam (Sam) Mahboob | Jo-Anne Sinnige-Egger |
| Kaytlin A Bailey | Alexandra Glenn | Roelof G Makken | Melissa St.Germaine-Small |
| Renee Baillargeon | Scott Golem | Patrick Maloney | Nancy A Stefureak |
| Julie Baker | Megan Kathleen Gordon | Hayam Mansour | Lewis G Stevenson |
| Larissa Barelli | Natalie K Gorejko | Daryna Marei | Darrin Sunstrum |
| Daniel R Barnowski | Shannon Groot-Kostuk | Deborah Marshall | Jason Sykes |
| Andre Basson | Laura Hamilton | Holly May | Alejandro Tanaka |
| Amanda Bering | Vanessa Hamilton | Arnold J Mcbay | Wan Xiang Fu Tang |
| Laura Birkett | Indra Hardeen | Peter McComie | Trudy Tattersall |
| William J Birrell | Laura Harris | Terrance Mcdonald | Adrian Thiessen |
| Courtney Bishop | Jodielynn Harrison | Wendy Mcfadden-Smith | Susan Tkachuk |
| Geoff Black | J Stephen Hartman | Kevin McGuiness | Laura Lee Tobicoe |
| Candice Bogdanski | Joanne Heritz | Patrick D Mcilroy | Jody Toetenel |
| Philip Ray Borland | Maximiliano Holten-Andersen | Charmaine McKnight | Brad Troup |
| Lorene Bourgeois | Karen Howie | Donald McLean | Saima Usman |
| Donald Brooks | Marlie Huisman | Lauren McNamara | Jackie L VanLankveld |
| Ivan Brown | David Hurst | Natasha Mellikov-Delong | Mari Carmen Veci |
| Theresa Bukovics | Biljana Indovski | Maja Milakovic | Nicholas Vesprini |
| Isabell Camillo | Alison Innes | Richard Ndayizigamiye | Michelle Vosburgh |
| Holly Catalfamo | Jennifer Janke-Predovich | Anna Nguyen | Philip Wachel |
| Nathan Cecckin | Anton Jansen | Melissa Nichol | Bradley Walchuk |
| Joashub Chitsinde | Robyn Joffe | Andreea Nicolau | Kent W Walker |
| Ivan Chow | Divya Joshi | Laila Obied | Ron Walker |
| Jeffrey Cornelissen | Zoltan Kalman | Patrick O’Hara | Denis Wall |
| Lindsay Cramp | Courtney Keogh | Jeff O’Leary | Tobias Wiegand |
| Lauren Cripps | Candice Leigh Kerling | John Orth | Paul Williams |
| William Crothers | Clelia Kimana | Monika Ovsonka | Carolyn Windsor |
| Donovan D’Amboise | Cindy Ko | Sarah Parker | Ellyse Winter |
| Elizabeth D’Angelo | Michael Koski | Kristin Patterson | Beate Wolf |
| Laureen Damignani | Elizabeth Kovacs | Robert Paugh | Kelly Wolf |
| Brian de Ruiter | Sandra Kroeker | Donna Pearce | Darryl Wood |
| Christopher J Demeter | Andrea Krueger | Josée Pépin | Ian Wood |
| Michael Dimatteo | Jennifer Lackey | Mario Pizzacalla | Barbara Worthy |
| Jillian Ditillio | Jesse Larone | Darren Platakis | Pei Lian Xie |
| Susan Down | Melissa Legree | Abeeda Anjoom Pooja | Abdelbaset Yagubi |
| Monica Drenth | Carol Leishman | Sara Posen | Nem Zekanovic |
| Monica Dufault | Nicole Lemieux | Christina Quintiliani | Guolei (Chris) Zhang |
| Anzhela Dzyundzyak | Amanda Lepp | Mojtaba Hedaytzadeh Razavi | Xin Zheng |
| Timothy R Fast | Kevin MacDonald | Jeffrey Reichheld | |
| Tracy Fazzari |