Union Proposals and College Response
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 …
Workload and safety concerns rise as Provincial Government announces return to in-person classrooms
The sudden announcement that Ontario colleges and universities can go back to classroom teaching this fall without physical restrictions or limits on class sizes has caught many faculty by surprise. …
College Faculty – Bargaining for Better
The dedicated faculty represented by OPSEU/SEFPO in Ontario’s 24 public colleges are negotiating a new collective agreement. JP Hornick, chair of the bargaining team, lays out the issues and challenges facing our financially starved college system – and what the government must do to ensure colleges, and college students, can underpin the province’s economic recovery.
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.