Membership Engagement Survey

The Membership Engagement Committee was struck during the September 2019 AUFA retreat. The committee was tasked with fostering more engagement with and participation in the union. This survey is one of the primary ways the committee seeks to accomplish this goal.

The intention is to run the survey regularly or when there is an important issue facing the AUFA membership. The goal for each run is to survey 100 randomly selected members (about one quarter of the membership).

Each survey will include some general questions intended to gauge the overall climate and mood of AUFA members. Repeating these in each survey run will allow us to establish trends over time.

The surveys will be conducted in-person or over the phone (or voice/video call) and take approximately 10 minutes to complete. We explained why we think it’s important to conduct surveys over the phone in a blog post announcing the first run in November 2019:

We also hope that conducting multiple surveys over the next year (and hopefully into the future) will help decrease the isolation many of our members feel. Separated and siloed, many of us have very few opportunities to build relationships of trust and solidarity. When you receive a phone call as part of this survey, there will be a human being on the other end who cares about you and about our collective interests.

Confidentiality

Responses from the survey are confidential and will only be sent to the Membership Engagement Committee. The data from the surveys will be held by the AUFA Office.

Any results shared outside of the Membership Engagement Committee will be aggregated so that no personally-identifiable information is available (e.g., 75% of respondents answered yes and 25% answered no). Comments, already anonymized by callers, will be further aggregated and summarized for the protection of members.

Contact

Please contact engagement@aufa.ca if you have any questions or concerns about the Membership Engagement Survey.