February 11, 2025
MSU Tidbit Café:Understanding Your Workplace Rights
We are pleased to announce that the MacEwan Staff Union (formerly known as the MacEwan Staff Association) has officially received the updated bargaining certificate from the Alberta Labour Relations Board under our new name. In the past, MSA was both a registered society in Alberta and a certified trade union. MSA’s legal counsel advised the MSA Board to take steps to remain a certified trade union but deregister as a society under the Alberta Societies Act, and this is one more successful stage in that transition that was approved by the union’s membership at the 2024 Spring General Membership meeting held in May.
As a sidenote, you may notice your union being referred to as MSA or MSU interchangeably during this transition year, but you can be assured that this is simply intended as an administrative process, and there are no anticipated changes to who the MacEwan Staff Association / MacEwan Staff Union actually is, or how we are governed or how we represent all non-academic employees of MacEwan University.