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      • Dental and Extended Health
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      • The SWF Process
      • SWF FAQs
      • Quick SWF Check
      • CWMG (College Workload Monitoring Group)
    • Partial-Load Faculty FAQ
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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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05 May

OPSEU 556 scholarship winners

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

We are happy to announce the winners of this year’s Local 556 scholarships. As usual we had a large number of applicants for the 2 types of scholarships.
Thanks to all of you who recommended students to this great opportunity.
REGULAR
Jacklyn Forgie – 1st. Year Fashion Techniques

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29 March

Negotiations Update: Demand setting meeting report.

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

The message came across loud and clear:
Ontario’s colleges need significant changes, for the sake of both the faculty who work in them and the students who rely on the education they provide. Gathering from across the province, delegates from Ontario’s 24 public colleges came together on March

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24 February

OPSEU 556 student scholarship applications

  • Posted by Taras Gula
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As faculty at George Brown College and members of OPSEU Local 556, your local union dues support six scholarships/bursaries for full time students that can demonstrate a financial need.  These scholarships/bursaries are made possible through your local union dues deduction.   As directed by the local membership, three of

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30 January

General Membership and Demand Setting Meeting February 2nd

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DATE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2ND.
TIME: 4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.  (TO BE FOLOWED BY A SOCIAL AT THE JASON GEORGE )
LOCATION: 200 KING STREET EAST – ROOM #426A
 ***Homework:    Please read Bargaining Bulletin #1  to help prepare for the meeting
 
Agenda for the meeting will

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13 September

Let’s Make a Deal: The Colleges and McDonald’s

  • Posted by Taras Gula
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“All 24 of Ontario’s public colleges have entered into an agreement with The McDonald’s Corporation to accept employee training for McDonald’s managers as academic credit for college business programs….   Comprehensive credit transfer between public colleges and corporations in a bi-lateral articulation agreement represents a significant departure from

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10 September

Negotiations 2014 – archive

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

Links to documents used to make decisions will be archived here for the time being.  They may be useful as we work in under the contract agreed to by the full membership, but not by members of local 556.
1.  The full text of the memorandum of understandingsigned by

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