Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- DSA
- NSGEU
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Dalhousie Staff Association (DSA) was formed in 1971 to unite clerical, technical and non-professional library employees at Dalhousie University in an effort to improve staff communications with the university administration. As a voluntary organization, it achieved several primary objectives: the establishment of a job evaluation program, standardized working hours and vacations, and a committee to air common concerns and complaints.
Despite pressure from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to organize the university’s non-academic employees, on 5 September 1974 university staff voted in favour of the DSA as their exclusive bargaining agent. The DSA applied for and received a voluntary recognition agreement from the university, which was signed on 23 January 1975. The first collective agreement between the DSA and the Board of Governors took effect on 9 May 1975.
In 1991 the DSA decided to merge with a larger union to gain the advantages of greater resources and a stronger bargaining position. Talks were initiated with the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU), and a merger agreement was signed in the spring of 1994, retroactive to 1 July 1992. In the interim, the DSA negotiated a final contract on its own, covering the period from 1993-1997.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Identifier of related entity
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Dates of relationship
Description of relationship
Access points area
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Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Maintained by
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Manual of style: The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Descriptive standard: ISAAR (CPF) - International Standard Archival Authority Record For Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd ed., Canberra: International Council on Archives, 2004.
Authorized form of name: Library of Congress Authorities.
Date and time format: ISO 8601-1:2019 - Date and time — Representations for information interchange — Part 1: Basic rules.
Country code format: ISO 3166-1:2013 - Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 1: Country codes.
Institution identifier: ISO 15511:2011 - Information and documentation -- International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL).
Institution identifier: Library and Archives Canada - Symbols and Interlibrary Loan Policies in Canada.
Language format: ISO 639-3:2007 - Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages.
Script format: ISO 15924:2004 - Information and documentation -- Codes for the representation of names of scripts.
Sources: The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin