Greetings Faculty: A huge thank you to each of you for standing strong during a long and difficult round of bargaining. As you know by now, facing pressure from student organizations and the resolve of faculty, on Thursday evening–just one hour before the strike deadline–the College Employer Council (CEC) agreed to send matters to binding … Continue reading Bargaining and Arbitration update
Category: Work to Rule
WORK-TO-RULE PHASE 3 STARTS TOMORROW: DETAILS BELOW Greetings faculty: The Colleges’ team, via the CEC, continues to assert that they will not return to the bargaining table, nor agree to refer outstanding issues to interest arbitration, despite faculty having clearly rejected their final offer. Typically in bargaining, following a failed final offer vote, the employer … Continue reading Phase 3 Work-to-Rule Information
Greetings faculty: We just voted down the CEC’s forced offer again and sent a clear and resounding message to the College Presidents and the CEC team that they must negotiate faculty’s key issues. The Colleges’ team is clinging to a fear-mongering campaign —one sanctioned and supported by the College Presidents. The Colleges’ team has once … Continue reading Bargaining Update on Vote Results and Work to Rule
One question that has been asked is how, specifically, Partial-Load faculty should address the issue of insufficient time to complete their week’s work, when speaking with a supervisor. We propose the following language as a draft, to be modified to suit needs of each particular faculty member: "Hello __________, As you know, in response to … Continue reading Information for Partial-Load Faculty
Thank you for your commitment to improving our students' learning conditions! The video below by Grant Curry, Labour Studies professor and Local president at St. Lawrence College, was posted to the Ontario College's facebook page. Some reaction from our members who have seen it so far is: "A great way of describing what has happened/is … Continue reading Video by Grant Curry Local 417