[GSA Council] Today's council meeting is cancelled

Fri Apr 12 12:18:55 PDT 2019

Dear Amir,

Thanks for your email. Please see details below for your information:

1) I've also had discussions with some other directors about your recent
email. They had considered your recent resignation email as some example of
aggressive and disrespectful  behavior. This could be a reason that nobody
responded your email. Believe me, if you are behaving respectfully toward
the other people, others would also respect you.

2) You just submitted your resignation when we cut a big amount of your
bursary. What happened at the previous council meeting which forced you to
send that harsh letter? It seems that cutting your bursary was the main
factor.

3) Etta said: "what kinds of repercussive measures you would like to see
from Directors?" but you did not respond to her email. *Nura also asked you
"whether you would like to be retroactively awarded XX% of you bursary". It
seems that **even the chair's mindset** was similar to several directors'
mindset that your main problem has been cutting your bursary. *

4) In your April's report, you have already mentioned that you have just
stopped working after giving that one week notice when resigning.
Presumably, If you had worked, you would have mentioned in your report.

5) I also have received several complaints from the directors that Nura is
taking the side of the executives and she is going beyond her duties as a
chair while saying the directors are taking the decisions subjectively or
when she is only coping the duties of directors.

Regards,
Masoumeh

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:32 PM President GSA <president at gsaconcordia.ca>
wrote:

> Dear Etta and all the Directors
>
> Thanks for all your concern. I really appreciate your care about GSA and
> are looking to resolve the issues. To your consideration, we have not
> stopped our work and we are working for the election and you don't need to
> be concern about the election and transition, as like always that we have
> put our effort for GSA.
>
> Being respected is the natural right of every human, it is what Nura
> wants, and also executives and the directors who are all the victim of
> disrespectful behaviour. Nura is not the only case, I have received several
> complaints from the directors that they have been disrespected with some
> other directors, and what I feel is that it not going to an end.
>
> I have tried always to be nice and not take serious action for the sake of
> the GSA (as we don't want to have bad stories for the coming year team) and
> also considering the fact that we human can do mistakes. But this kind of
> behaviour is getting dangerous and is harming the body of the GSA which
> should serve student rather than making a problem within itself. We are
> still receiving disrespectful emails which should be stopped at some point.
>
> Being at GSA is the matter of responsibility, and mental pressure and we
> are not here for money, I don't want to hear again that directors are
> disrespecting me with their own mindset about money.
>
> FYI I want to mention here some of the great achievement of the GSA in our
> mandate which we accomplished so far:
>
> 1- It is the only year In GSA that no harassment, grievance and legal case
> has happened in GSA and we have been appreciated by Terry Kyle, Manager of
> Student Life at Dean of Student, times to times for keeping such a balance
> among the staff members, executives and also directors.
>
> 2- It has been the only year, based on Brad Nelson (Associate Dean of
> Graduate Studies), that they have such a great collaboration with GSA for
> following up student issues with them
>
> 3- By the new negotiation with Union we came to an agreement that will
> save $50,000 for GSA by reducing the working hours of the staff based on
> what is seen was practical in GSA. This collective agreement was supposed
> to be signed in 2016!
>
> 4- We resolved the grievance cases about sexual harassment from 2017 which
> was costing $20,000 for GSA.
>
> 5- We resolved the grievance case for suspension of the staff member from
> 2016
>
> 6- We have had a close relationship with the main student association in
> the university like JMGSA and we initiated a collaborative event to bring a
> student from all the department together
>
> 7- We have a surplus of $200,000 in GSA account which is the result of our
> detailed management of the GSA account which is unique in the history of
> the GSA, while at the same time we have covered all the events GSA normally
> has and initiated some new events for students
>
> With our effort in this year, we have saved GSA which was declining all
> through these years and we don't expect that much from the council, just
> Respect.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Amir Molaei
> President
>
>
> Graduate Students' Association
> Concordia University, 2030 Mackay · Montreal · QC · H3N 1J1
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> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:46 AM Etta Sandry <etta.sandry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This seems like a bad time to miss a council meeting considering Nura’s
>> resignation and the proposed resignation by the executive team. Would the
>> directors and executives who were planning to attend the meeting today be
>> willing to meet informally to have a *proactive* discussion about how
>> the directors and executives can continue to work together for the end of
>> the mandate and the next steps for finishing the action plan, holding
>> elections, and transitioning to the new team? Any motions that we come to
>> could maybe be put to an online vote by email for the rest of the directors
>> or be added to the agenda for the next meeting we are able to hold.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Etta
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2019, at 10:22 AM, meeting facilitator <
>> meetingfacilitator.gsa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Due to lack of quorum, today's council meeting is cancelled.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rouzbeh Ghouchani
>>
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