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We are faculty, librarians, and archivists from across Queen’s University campus. We come together from many fields of study and many walks of life because we want our pension plan to honour its commitments to responsible investing.

 

As members of Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA), our pensions are held with the University Pension Plan (UPP). The UPP has articulated its “responsibility to promote the health of capital markets and the financial, social, and environmental systems on which capital markets rely” as a core investment belief. The UPP has operationalized that belief in part through its Responsible Investment and Investment Exclusion policies. However, the UPP’s current investment practices violate these commitments.

 

With this campaign, we are following the lead of other unions, among them the University of Toronto Faculty Association and Trent University Faculty Association, who have already passed motions for UPP divestment. We believe that it is our responsibility to ensure our pensions – our deferred wages – are not profiting off of egregious violations of human rights.

 

Join your colleagues who have committed to vote ‘yes’ to a motion calling on the UPP to divest from the manufacture of weapons used to commit or facilitate war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international law in Palestine and elsewhere. You can read QUFA Members’ Motion for UPP Divestment HERE.

 

Sign the pledge and join us in taking a meaningful stand to invest your pension and our collective resources in a just and sustainable future.