Tag: Strike
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College faculty: Comparison of Management and Union Offers
What follows is an Article-by-Article comparison of the College Employer Council’s final offer, tabled in the morning of November 6, and the Union’s final proposal, tabled in the evening of the same day. Management’s offer contains serious concessions that would: Allow the Council to avoid applying Bill 148’s equal pay for equal work provisions to…
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College faculty offer tabled November 6, 2017
This is the proposal tabled by the college faculty bargaining team with the Colleges Employer Council through the mediator on November 6, 2017.
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March and rally to support faculty on strike at La Cité College
Ottawa – Faculty on strike at La Cité College will hold a march and rally on Thursday, November 9. They will call on MPP Marie-France Lalonde and the government of Ontario to pressure the colleges to return to the bargaining table and finish the job of negotiating a fair collective agreement. Date: Thursday, November 9,…
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OLRB provides details of college faculty vote
College faculty across Ontario will vote November 14-16 on the most recent contract offer by the College Employer Council. The attached documents provide details of the vote as ordered by the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
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Vote No – On the Line: College Faculty Strike Bulletin #5
Fight off concessions and win academic freedom – reject the colleges’ offer College faculty will vote on the College Employer Council’s so-called “final” offer November 14 to 16, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has ordered. Under the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, the employer can force a vote on its offer any time after 15 days…
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Rally to support faculty on strike at Humber College
Faculty on strike at Humber College will hold a mass picket on Wednesday, November 8 as they call on the College Employer Council to return to the bargaining table and finish the job of negotiating a fair collective agreement. Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Time: 6:15 to 10 a.m. Place: Outside Humber College North Campus,…
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OPSEU to colleges: get back to the table
Toronto – Faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges are calling on the College Employer Council to get back to the bargaining table and move quickly to end a strike that is now into its fourth week. “It is nothing short of outrageous that the colleges have refused to continue bargaining and have instead called for…
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Union team calls on faculty to reject colleges’ offer
Toronto – The union for striking Ontario college faculty is calling on its members to reject the colleges’ latest “take it or leave it” offer. “Yesterday, after the College Employer Council pulled the plug on negotiations and called for a vote on their latest offer, the faculty bargaining team put forward a new proposal aimed…
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Colleges should get back to bargaining table, faculty say
Toronto – The College Employer Council should be working out a deal at the bargaining table instead of calling a strike-prolonging vote on its final offer, the bargaining team for 12,000 striking college faculty says. “Rather than continue to bargain, the colleges have called a vote that, in itself, could easily keep faculty and students…
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OPSEU mourns Amy Stiles, Local 237
Flags at OPSEU head office were lowered to half-mast Friday for Amy Stiles, a member of Local 237 who died in a tragic car accident as she returned from Thursday’s Queen’s Park rally in support of striking college faculty. Local 237 picket lines at Conestoga College came down on Friday as a show of respect.…
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Blood service workers deliver 89 per cent strike vote
Toronto – Staff who run blood donor clinics and transport blood and blood products across southern Ontario have given their bargaining team a strike mandate. In balloting Thursday, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) support workers voted 89 per cent in favour of strike action if it becomes necessary to move negotiations forward. CBS and the Ontario…
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Precarious work takes centre stage as college faculty rally at Queen’s Park
Toronto – The issue of precarious work was high on the agenda for college faculty, students, and their supporters at a raucous rally at Queen’s Park today. “The fight for equal pay for equal work, to get rid of precarious jobs, to have more full-time jobs, that’s the exact right fight,” the President of the…
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College faculty ready to bargain as employer returns to table
Toronto – The union bargaining team for Ontario public college faculty is interested in what the College Employer Council has to say and ready to bargain when contract talks resume tomorrow, team chair JP Hornick says. “College faculty are taking a stand for a better college education system,” she said. “We are ready, as we…
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On the Line: College Faculty Strike Bulletin #4
Your bargaining team is ready to bargain when contract talks resume Thursday. “College faculty are taking a stand for a better college education system. We are ready, as we have been from the start, to bargain a fair contract that addresses the issues of good jobs and quality education.” JP Hornick, bargaining team chair We…
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Take action now for a better future for Ontario college students
Faculty have a better plan for Ontario’s colleges It’s built on: Better education: A 50-50 ratio of full-time to contract faculty will mean more time for students. Better jobs: Longer contracts will allow contract faculty to plan their lives. No one can have a secure future built on four-month jobs. Better programming: Including faculty in…
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Stand up to the crisis in our colleges: Rally at Queen’s Park
Striking college faculty from around the province will be coming to Queen’s Park to send the message that it’s time to get students back in their classrooms and get faculty back to work. College faculty call on the College Employer Council to come back to the bargaining table ready to negotiate a fair contract that…
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On the Line: College Faculty Strike Bulletin #3
Only bargaining will end this strike. Employer stonewalling won’t The College Employer Council’s expensive reputation management firm, DS Consulting, is hard at work. Council’s latest bulletin provides some interesting spin on how and why faculty have come to be on strike. At no point, however, does it discuss their role in forcing a strike, nor…
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Bloodlines: CBS strike vote set for November 2
Bloodlines Bargaining Bulletin Issue #5, October 27, 2017 For OPSEU Support members working at Canadian Blood Services In voting in September, OPSEU members at Canadian Blood Services rejected the tentative collective agreement the union bargaining team had negotiated. Since then, the team has applied for conciliation to get the Ontario Ministry of Labour to appoint…
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College faculty strike in the news – Day twelve
More than 12,000 OPSEU college faculty members continue to make headlines following the start of their strike at 12:01 a.m. October 16, 2017. Find some of the coverage by clicking on the links below. College students and striking faculty face same challenges with precarious work (Toronto Star) Community college workers hold rallies across the province…