The 2018 GMM has come and gone, but if you missed it you can get caught up on by reading the reports that were submitted by various members of the LEC. There are still a few missing, but some good reading there now while we wait for the rest to come in. The full list… Continue reading General Membership Meeting Reports
TORONTO – OPSEU CAAT Academic and the colleges’ bargaining team participated in mediation from December 14 through December 16. Following the mediation, an arbitration took place on Saturday, December 16. The arbitrator’s award will form the new collective agreement for Ontario college faculty and will be handed down during the week of December 18. The… Continue reading New Collective Agreement This Week
Dear Faculty, Students, Parents, We fully understand your confusion and frustration with the events on Monday. The College Employer Council has acted in bad faith and needs to get back to the table to finish the negotiations. While more official responses will be coming from the CAAT-A bargaining team soon, in an attempt to answer… Continue reading Bad offer, bad faith bargaining
Dear Faculty, Students, Parents, We fully understand your confusion and frustration with the events on Monday. The College Employer Council has acted in bad faith and needs to get back to the table to finish the negotiations. While more official responses will be coming from the CAAT-A bargaining team soon, in an attempt to answer… Continue reading Bad offer, bad faith bargaining
There is a new council bulletin circulating that I am sure you will see soon if you have not already. Despite hiring a private “spin doctor” (with public money of course), the council has nothing new to offer in this latest communication. Like the previous bulletins, this one attempts to present the Colleges’ last offer… Continue reading A (slightly) new spin on some old ideas – the latest College Council bulletin
I though it might be good to wrap up week one and start week two with a survey of some of news article that have been published about the strike. Ontario college strike spotlights ‘new norm’ of precarious labour in academia — This is an excellent article that examines the issue that is garnering the… Continue reading Survey of news articles
I though it might be good to wrap up week one and start week two with a survey of some of news article that have been published about the strike. Ontario college strike spotlights ‘new norm’ of precarious labour in academia — This is an excellent article that examines the issue that is garnering the… Continue reading Survey of news articles
Official Press Release TORONTO – More than 12,000 Ontario public college faculty will be on the picket line rather than in their classrooms on Monday morning after talks between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the College Employer Council failed to produce a tentative collective agreement. “On October 14, we presented Council with… Continue reading Ontario college strike begins Monday morning as employer rejects faculty offer
TORONTO – The union bargaining team for Ontario public college faculty has tabled its final offer to the College Employer Council in a bid to avert a strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday. The union offer is built around three critical proposals to improve education quality for students and treat faculty fairly: a 50:50 ratio of… Continue reading Union tables final offer in a bid to avert strike
The College Employer Council tabled a “final offer” on Tuesday and then walked away from further bargaining. This is not negotiation, but rather dictating terms of settlement. Still, any offer should be considered, and the bargaining team did consider it, but quickly determined it was not acceptable. The team has provided a point by point… Continue reading Why was the Final Offer rejected?
