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      • Dental and Extended Health
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      • SWF FAQs
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28 September

An update from your Bargaining team: Arbitrator awards improvements far beyond those offered by Employer in negotiations

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining

To: All College Faculty

On September 23, Arbitrator William Kaplan awarded all OPSEU/SEFPO College Faculty members a new collective agreement that will govern our working conditions until September 30, 2024.

This award (linked here) includes significant gains in areas including equity,

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23 September

Kaplan Bargaining Award Decision Published: New CAAT-A Collective Agreement

  • Posted by Sarah Wiebe
  • Categories Uncategorized

Dear College faculty members,

15 months after our Collective Agreement negotiations began, and six months after the parties agreed to conclude the negotiations through a process of interest arbitration, Arbitrator William Kaplan has today released his award that determines our new Collective Agreement, which

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12 September

Arbitration update

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

College faculty arbitration update

OPSEU/SEFPO CAAT Academic and the CEC participated in a mediation/arbitration September 7-9, 2022. Following the mediation part of the proceeding, an arbitration occurred on September 9, 2022. The arbitrator’s award will form the new collective agreement and it is anticipated

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05 May

OPSEU556 Student scholarship winners 2022

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories From the post - new and notable, Uncategorized

INDIGENOUS

Nicole Laurendeau – $1,000  –  Jewelry Arts Program – Endorsed by Trisha Yeo

Ashley Hunt – $1,000 – AWCCA Program – Endorsed by Anna Willats

Jean-Claude Fillion – $1,000 – RPN Bridge to

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20 April

Bargaining Team update April 20, 2022

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining, Uncategorized

Dear CAAT-A Members,

As the semester winds to a close, we wanted to reach out to keep you posted on the latest developments related to the conclusion of a new Collective Agreement.

Mediation/Arbitration Scheduling

In March, both sides

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25 March

Arbitration has begun: Media Blackout

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining

Hello Faculty,

Arbitrator William Kaplan has imposed a media blackout on the upcoming voluntary mediation-interest arbitration between the Colleges’ and College Faculty bargaining teams. There will be no further communication from the team until Arbitrator Kaplan lifts the blackout. We

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23 March

Bargaining and Arbitration update

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining

Greetings Faculty:

 A huge thank you to each of you for standing strong during a long and difficult round of bargaining. As you know by now, facing pressure from student organizations and the resolve of faculty, on Thursday evening–just one hour before the strike

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18 March

Joint Statement about CAAT-A Bargaining: All strike activities ended as the parties have agreed to binding interest arbitration

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

The parties have reached an agreement to enter binding interest arbitration and the strike that was scheduled to commence at 12:01 am on March 18, 2022, is called off. This also concludes all work-to-rule strike activities.

Les parties sont parvenues à un accord pour

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14 March

Letter to faculty explaining motivation for the strike deadline

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining

Dear Faculty,

Today, three months after commencing work-to-rule action, we are setting a strike deadline in an effort to compel the College Employer Council (CEC) and the College Presidents to do either of the two things they have refused to do since bargaining began: 

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14 March

Letter to College Presidents from the Bargaining Team

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining

Dear College Presidents:College faculty have agreed to go to voluntary binding interest arbitration to save the school year, and are asking you to do the same.On February 17, 2022 faculty across the province rejected your final offer, after spending months attempting to find a middle path between

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