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Below you will find OPSEU’s third Bargaining Bulletin, which has also been posted to www.collegefaculty.org.  In this bulletin, the bargaining team provides a list of several of the major proposals that the team presented to the Employer at the bargaining table, on August 3-5.   To provide context for those proposals, the team’s overview that was presented … Continue reading Bargaining Update – August 9th, 2021

Yesterday the CAAT-A Bargaining Team met with the Employer for the third consecutive day. We presented proposals on Joint Committee Time, Article 11.06 (outside employment), and Coordinators. The proposals are included as downloadable PDFs below. Please note that we have not yet tabled our monetary proposals although we have been working on them. On July … Continue reading Bargaining Update – August 6, 2021

The team met with the College Employer Council team again today. We tabled proposals on the class definitions of a professor and counsellor. Additionally, we presented proposals on academic freedom, intellectual property rights and shared governance, and finally, staffing. The proposals are below as downloadable PDFs. We will be back at the table tomorrow and … Continue reading Bargaining Update – August 4, 2021

Over the next three days (August 3, 4, and 5), your bargaining team will be meeting with the employer. The goal is to table the entire proposal package by the end of this week so that we can begin negotiations immediately and work toward a better collective agreement that satisfies members’ demands. You will note … Continue reading Bargaining Update – August 3, 2021

As many of you may recall, the top demand coming out of the final demand setting meeting in April was around workload.  This is an ongoing issue in our negotiations, and the conditions brought on by the pandemic, rapid expansion of online learning, microcredentials, inequality, and maximization have only heightened the need to make gains … Continue reading Bargaining Update – June 22, 2021