Local 417 General Members Meeting for Bargaining Updates and Planning When? Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 pm Where? Via Zoom There will be door prizes! Get the zoom meeting information here: christina.decarie@slcfaculty.ca Find the Zoom link information in this week’s email digest. If you would like to get notifications about up-coming meetings, please sign up [...]
SLC Faculty Local 417 Informal Drop-In Meeting Thursday, September 2, 2021 7:00 – 9:00 PM via Zoom Questions for your union? Bring them to Stewards and members of the Local 417 Executive Committee. Agenda includes vaccination policy updates, safety on campus updates, and more. When? Thursday, September 2, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Where? Via Zoom [...]
St. Lawrence College has said repeatedly throughout the spring and summer that a return to campus to the degree it has been planning for will not be possible if physical distancing requirements remain in place. October 1, 2020 Ontario introduces the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020. Regulation 364/20 includes [...]
SLC Faculty Local 417 Informal Drop-In Meeting Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:00 – 9:00 PM via Zoom Questions for your union? Bring them to Stewards and members of the Local 417 Executive Committee. Agenda includes an update from Local President Grant Currie and a financial update from Treasurer Karen Weisbaum. President’s Report Drop-in Meeting [...]
Today many staff and faculty heaved a sigh of relief as St. Lawrence College announced (via email) that all students, faculty, employees, and visitors attending our campuses or workspaces must be fully vaccinated (barring legitimate exemption). No doubt many students and families share in our relief. As other colleges and universities began announcing [...]
A message from the Bargaining Team: Please note that we have not yet tabled our monetary proposals although we have been working on them. On July 2nd, we gave Notice to Bargain and asked the Employer for the information we need to complete our monetary proposals. That disclosure has yet to be provided. [...]
By now, most of you have received word of the Ministry's sudden announcement that Ontario colleges and universities can go back to classroom teaching this fall semester without physical restrictions or limits on class sizes. While some colleges are taking an aggressive stance on returning to the classroom, not all are [...]
The teams met on July 7 and 8 this week to discuss ground rules, set the tone for bargaining, and exchange initial proposals. Attached, please find the opening statement and summary of initial proposals that your bargaining team tabled in the course of negotiations with the College Employer team earlier today, [...]
Over the past several years there has been a wide-spread attack on academic freedom across Ontario Colleges. So wide-spread that the protection of this freedom was a key addition to our most recent collective agreement. Recently the Union put forward a grievance related to the protection of academic freedom and the [...]
Microcredentials - the new buzz word in post-secondary education. You’ve likely already heard of them. In fact, you or someone on your team might already be involved in the development of microcredentials at SLC. The Province of Ontario has announced significant financial support for the development and implementation of such credentials. [...]