{"id":2483,"date":"2019-12-03T09:47:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lufappuldev.wpengine.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2020-02-07T20:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:49:33","slug":"linda-st-pierre-receives-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Linda St-Pierre Receives National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Sudbury &#8211; December 3, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Linda St-Pierre received the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caut.ca\/about-us\/awards-scholarships\/lists\/awards-and-scholarships\/the-bernice-schrank-award\">Bernice Schranck Award<\/a> at the National Council of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa on Saturday, Nov. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the enforcement of collective agreement provisions through grievance and arbitration. Over the past decade, Linda has become nationally recognized for her passionate commitment to improving labour rights and her vigilance in protecting the collective agreement from administrative overreach.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/lufappuldev.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LSPBAustin-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LSPBAustin-Smith.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LSPBAustin-Smith-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Linda St-Pierre with CAUT President Brenda Austin-Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda has been elected\nChief Steward six times since her first election in 2009. In 2012, she also\nbecame LUFA\u2019s Chief Grievance Officer, after the creation of that position in\norder to respond to the high volume of breaches of the collective agreement by\nthe Laurentian administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda has been on nine\nbargaining teams, filed hundreds of grievances, and participated in innumerable\nmediations and arbitration hearings.&nbsp; She\nalso has led certification drives for online instructors, on-campus clinicians,\nand clinicians at Health Sciences North. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a sessional\ninstructor, Linda, who has a doctorate in biological\nsciences, has taught courses in neuroscience and labour studies; she also has\nover 30 publications to her credit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We congratulate Linda as a most worthy recipient of this great honour, and  thank everyone who wrote in support of the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sudbury &#8211; December 3, 2019) We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Linda St-Pierre received the prestigious Bernice Schranck Award at the National Council of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa on Saturday, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/?p=2483\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}