On August 5, the bargaining team for full-time and partial-load college faculty completed a scheduled three days of bargaining with the College Employer Council. During these days, the bargaining team presented all demands not related to issues of compensation.
Three-quarters of faculty teaching in our public colleges are precarious workers – disproportionately women and racialized workers. They lack job security and benefits. They earn less than full-time faculty for doing exactly the same work. Their class sizes are ballooning. This hurts them and it hurts students. We’re bargaining for better – for fairness for these faculty.
The team met with the College Employer Council team on Monday and again yesterday. Please see the attached Bargaining Update. The College Employer Council’s proposal on Workload, unsurprisingly, sounds very …
The Bargaining Team presented proposals on academic freedom, intellectual property rights, shared governance and staffing. Proposals on the class definitions of a professor and counsellor were tabled.
