Tag: Save Our Colleges
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PRESS RELEASE: “Our community college system has been sabotaged”: Ontario college workers vow to fight back amidst 10,000 job losses
College workers represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) are blowing the whistle on the crisis in Ontario’s community college system that has led to one of the largest mass layoffs in Ontario’s history. After years of deliberate government underfunding and administrative mismanagement, OPSEU/SEFPO has learned that roughly 10,000 faculty and college staff…
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Labour, student, and post-secondary advocacy leaders jointly call for funding public education as a buffer to U.S. tariff fallout: “Our college system can be the lifeboat.”
A joint release between OPSEU/SEFPO, Canadian Federation of Students – Ontario, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), and Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). Toronto, ON – As Canada braces for the economic fallout of dramatic tariffs announced by Donald Trump, labour, student, and post-secondary advocacy leaders gathered at Queen’s Park on the first day…
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Ontario’s Public Colleges at a Crossroads: Navigating the crisis and building a brighter Future
Ontario’s Public Colleges at a Crossroads: Navigating the Crisis and Building a brighter Future Ontario’s public college system is facing an unprecedented crisis – and at the root is the province walking away from its responsibility to fund education. It doesn’t have to be this way. OPSEU/SEFPO has been working diligently for months to map…
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College Faculty DivEx Bulletin: A better plan for Ontario’s colleges
Ontario’s Public Colleges at a Crossroads: Navigating the Crisis and Building a brighter Future Ontario’s public college system is facing an unprecedented crisis – and at the root is the province walking away from its responsibility to fund education. It doesn’t have to be this way. OPSEU/SEFPO has been working diligently for months to map…