NSTU Reserve Membership

To apply, you may submit your application and payment online, or download the attached PDF form and send the completed form via fax to (902) 477-3517 or by email to nday@staff.nstu.ca.

Effective August 1, 2018, Reserve Members must select a Local when applying.

Fee: $32.00/Annually – Expires July 31st

Proof of days taught (via payroll statements or statements of days taught) must be forwarded to the NSTU. A minimum of 15 days taught and claimed is required in the previous and/or current school year.

Application Form – PDF for Download

Application Form – Apply & Remit Payment Online

NSTU Guidebook Excerpt

Section II – By-Laws of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union

Article I – Membership

3. Reserve Member

1. A Reserve Member is a teacher or other qualified person engaged on a day-to-day basis to take the place of a person regularly employed as a teacher by an Education Entity as defined by the Education Act, who has been employed as such for not less than fifteen (15) days in the preceding and/or the current school year, and who:
  1. is employed on a day-to-day basis by an education entity as defined by the Education Act to take the place of a regularly employed teacher;
  2. pays an annual Union Membership Fee as fixed from time-to-time by Council; and,
  3. pays per diem Union Membership Fees as fixed from time-to-time by Council.
2. The rights of Reserve Membership shall include, but not necessarily be limited to the right to:
  1. benefits as provided through NSTU as bargaining agent;
  2. request legal assistance in instances resulting from problems arising in the performance of duties;
  3. professional counselling within education;
  4. vote at the local and provincial level;
  5. attend Council as outlined in Article II of these By-Laws;
  6. membership in Professional Associations, except the right to hold office;
  7. membership in the NSTU Group Insurance Plan, in accordance with the provisions of the plan;
  8. membership on NSTU committees, where elected or appointed; and,
  9. access NSTU publications and materials, as assigned, on the NSTU website.