No Temporary Solution – Ontario’s shifting college and university workforce
FEBRUARY 8, 2018 While post-secondary institutions are places of learning, they also employ thousands of people across a broad spectrum of job classifications. This report explores the extent to which workers in Canada’s post-secondary institutions are experiencing precarity. More precisely, it asks whether employment on university and college campuses in Ontario is becoming more precarious, for […]
Union launches charter challenge over five-week Ontario college strike
TORONTO – The union representing Ontario’s college faculty has launched a charter challenge of legislation that ended a five-week strike and allowed 500,000 students to return to class. The president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says the back-to-work legislation introduced by the Liberal government, and supported by the Opposition Progressive Conservatives, violated workers’ rights. “The union’s rights […]
OPSEU files charter challenge to defend right to strike
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College Faculty: Update from your bargaining team – Issue #3
In an award issued Wednesday, December 20, arbitrator William Kaplan set out the terms of a four-year contract that will govern faculty work until September 30, 2021. The award includes language on items previously agreed on in bargaining, plus his (final and binding) decisions on issues that were still in dispute when bargaining ended. Click […]