• Video Update with Chair of Bargaining Team on the team’s recent call for a strike vote.
    What does a “no-board” report mean? Why is a strike mandate important right now? JP Hornick provides insight on the current status of negotiations.
  • Pandemic-driven shift to online learning
    When COVID-19 turned education on its ear, college faculty rushed to bring learning online. But quality education isn’t done in a pinch. It requires thoughtful and thorough preparation. College execs claim it’s a slam-dunk – and compound the problem by recklessly increasing class sizes while axing librarians and counsellors: measures that are unfair to students and faculty, and which undermine outcomes. Faculty are bargaining for better – much better.
  • Precarity, equity and racialization in the Ontario College system
    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.