NSTU Union Dues

Fees

Active Members: $925 annually (August 1 - July 31), per member.
Reserve Members: $32 annually (August 1 - July 31) plus an additional $3.00 per day taught.
Associate Members: $10 annually (August 1 - July 31).
Term Contracts: Fees of less than 60 days are pro-rated and the amount is determined on the basis of the number of days employed over a denominator of sixty (60) multiplied by eighty percent (80%) of the annual membership fee as fixed from time-to-time by Council.

Union dues should be included on the T4 form issued by the school board. This constitutes the required receipt for income tax purposes. All fees are deductible for income tax purposes.

Payment Schedule

Union dues cover the school year from August 1 to July 31. Dues paid in one school year are not carried over to the next school year regardless of the length of the term employment for which Union dues are paid.

All NSTU members engaged by way of a permanent, regular, probationary or term contract pay Union dues over the first five months of their employment for the school year in which they are employed.

NSTU members hired on permanent, regular, or probationary contracts effective August 1 pay dues in equal instalments deducted from each pay period from August to December, inclusive.
NSTU members hired on permanent, regular, or probationary contracts effective January 1 pay dues in equal instalments deducted from each pay period from January to May, inclusive and cover the period from the commencement of service to July 31. Should employment continue into the next school year, Union dues for the next school year are payable beginning August 1 as described above.

All other NSTU members, hired by way of term contracts, pay dues in equal instalments deducted from each pay period in the five months commencing with the date of their employment or over the length of the term contract, whichever is the lesser. As noted above, Union dues cover the school year, or portion of the school year covered by the term contract and are not applicable to the following school year.

NSTU Members with a Permanent, Regular, or Probationary Contract

Your dues are payable in full the first day you teach. However, the NSTU provides for the collection of those dues over a five-month period, dating from the beginning of the school year (August 1) or the first day you teach as noted above.

NSTU Members with a Term Contract

If you begin your term in September and work more than 60 days, your dues are payable over the five months of August, September, October, November, and December.
If you begin your term in January and work more than 60 days, the same rule applies: your dues are payable over the five months of January, February, March, April, and May. If you then begin a new term in September of the NEXT school year, and work more than 60 days, your dues are payable again over the five months of August to December. Dues are NOT payable again in January once paid in September. For a term contract greater than 60 days and less than five months, dues are deducted in equal instalments over the contract period.

NSTU Guidebook Excerpt

Section I – Teaching Profession Act

14. Payment of Fees

1. 1. Every member of the Union shall pay to the Union annually such fees as are prescribed by the Union and every teacher who has resigned or has been expelled from the Union and who continues to teach shall pay an amount equivalent to such fees.

   2. On or about the fifteenth day of September in each year, the Minister shall cause to be sent to each education entity a copy of the scale of fees payable to the Union by its members as furnished to the Minister pursuant to Section 13.

   3. Every education entity shall deduct from the salary of each member of the Union and each teacher employed by it who has resigned or has been expelled from the Union an amount equal to the fees payable by the person to the Union according to the scale furnished by the Minister, and shall make such deductions in twelve equal monthly instalments, or in such other number of equal monthly instalments as may be agreed upon by the board and the Union, beginning in the month of September or in the month following receipt of notice that the person has become or been readmitted as a member of the Union.

   4. Every education entity shall remit each month to the Secretary-treasurer of the Union the amount of deductions made by it pursuant to subsection (3) within ten days after the end of the month in which the fees are deducted.

   5. The Minister shall cause to be withheld, from the amount payable by the Minister under the Education Act to a [an] education entity in any year, an amount equal to the difference between the sum of the deductions made by the board pursuant to subsection (3) and the amount remitted by it to the Secretary treasurer of the Union pursuant to subsection (4).

   6. The Minister shall cause all amounts withheld by the Minister pursuant to subsection (5) to be remitted to the Secretary-treasurer of the Union at such times and in such amounts as the Minister determines. R.S., c. 462, s. 14; 2018, c. 1, s. 46.