The HyFlex Conundrum
By Anna Ainsworth – President – OPSEU Local 560 We asked you to reflect on your experiences of HyFlex teaching, and you did not hesitate to share. Within 4 days …
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.
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 …