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** Fleming Faculty are in region 3 and belong to CAAT-A **

Last time Fleming had the highest participation rate in our region!  Please complete the Social Mapping Census so OPSEU can improve services to everyone

Letter/invitation below.  Unfortunately the deadline is tomorrow.

DO NOT HESITATE — SIGN UP NOW!

Greetings Young Workers,

My name is Evan Wickham and I have the honour of being your Provincial Young Worker Representative for the 2019-2021 term. For those unfamiliar with the role, yes, young workers do have a voice. One of the progressive aspects of our union is the recognition that the vibrancy and innovation of youth workers play an essential part in its function. Provided the opportunity, it is up to us to develop and create polices and movements which bring our dreams, goals and concerns to the forefront of labour reforms. What our future jobs look like depend on our actions now.

We have been given a committee to speak about increasing awareness on key young worker issues such as environmental sustainability; international fair trade; part-time issues and job security.

I welcome your involvement in this initiative no matter what your level of experience and I take great pleasure in inviting you to share your voice at our annual Young Workers Conference on August 9th – August 11th at the Chelsea Hotel. Child care and accommodations will be covered as well as lost wages. To register you have to sign in / Create a profile on the OPSEU’s Members Portal, go to events and you will be pre-registered once you’re under the age of 35 and complete the application.
Deadline for submission will be May 31st 2019. If you have comments or concerns please email presidentlocal376@gmail.com. Thank you and I hope to see you there.
In Solidarity,

Evan Wickham

President

(LBED) Local 376

With June just two days away it’s not too late to think about your spring reading list.

Here are the latest two must haves from Local 352:

• 2018-2019 Year in Review
  • Brought to you by your CAAT-A Divisional Executive, this 6 page PDF highlights happenings from the last academic year.  (The back page also contains a list of all of the College Local numbers and their Executive representative for easy reference).
• May 2019 Colloquium
  • This edition of our local newsletter features our new VPAE,  discussion of importance of coordinator-ship as faculty work, articles on academic freedom and much, much more.  Thank you to Nancy Rishor for submitting an article.  If you are interesting in writing a piece for our next colloquium, we’d be pleased to share it!

In solidarity,

Your Local 352 Communications Team

A number of contract faculty advised stewards that they were not getting teaching hours while full-time support staff were offered the courses contract faculty could teach. This issue has been raised AUCC on multiple occasions in the past.

The new VPA, Tom Phillips, advised the union on Friday May 3rd that the courses will be re-posted for 3 days this week.

If qualified contract faculty apply and should have been offered the work, the contracts will re-assigned. This process will also happen for the back half of the semester.

The postings are visible on the College’s career website: https://flemingcollege.ca/about-fleming/careers-at-fleming

Because of the limited time, please share this information with anyone you know that may have been affected.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your union steward.