Stop the steal: the truth behind the sell-off of Ontario’s colleges.

The current college system is portrayed as in crisis due to a systematic siphoning of public funds to privatize education under Doug Ford. This strategy, mirroring past failures in Australia, threatens job security and educational integrity by funding short training programs over traditional college education, ultimately benefiting private corporations at the expense of students' futures.

Save Our Colleges

Ontario colleges were built to provide local, affordable, and accessible job training in our communities. But that system is on the brink of collapse, as the Ford government drains public funding from our college system. Per-student funding in Ontario is the lowest in Canada, just 56% of the national average. It’s greenlit college admin to embrace risky and failed financial schemes like … Continue reading Save Our Colleges

Solidarity with CUPE education workers

You have hopefully received an email with a press release sharing OPSEU/SEFPO education workers will walk off the job this Friday in a show of solidarity with their CUPE colleagues in a province-wide protest against Stephen Lecce and the Ford government’s Bill 28. Please know that we’re 'CAAT-A/College Faculty', not 'Education Workers/Sector 3'. Education workers … Continue reading Solidarity with CUPE education workers

OPSEU/SEFPO welcomes new leadership: JP Hornick and Laurie Nancekivell

JP Hornick has been elected as the new President of OPSEU/SEFPO marking the first change in the union’s presidency in 15 years. Hornick is the Coordinator of the School of Labour at George Brown College, a long-time OPSEU/SEFPO leader and a women’s rights, equity, LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS activist. She ran for President on a platform of … Continue reading OPSEU/SEFPO welcomes new leadership: JP Hornick and Laurie Nancekivell