Massive workloads threaten quality education – CAAT-A Bargaining Team

COVID-19 required bringing education online – and created overwhelming workloads for already overburdened faculty. Students deserve rich, meaningful content – not curriculum created on the cheap. A job done well demands time, and college administrators must give faculty the time they need to give students curriculum and tools that respond to their needs. And administrators must give guarantees to the 75 per cent of faculty on part-time, precarious contracts that all their work will be compensated – as is just and right.

Union rejects offer to extend current Collective Agreement for two years

On February 16th, OPSEU received an offer from the College Employer Council regarding the Collective Agreement negotiations for both our own CAAT-A bargaining unit and the CAAT-Support-Part Time bargaining unit. That offer would see the Collective Agreements of both units extended by an additional two years, with 1% annual increases of salary/wages. The offer proposes no other improvements to the current Collective Agreement.