Dear Faculty Members,
As you likely know, the College Employer Council has called for a forced offer vote on their most recent offer. The vote will be conducted by the Ontario Labour Relations Board, from 9:00 A.M on Tuesday, February 15th until 3:00 P.M.
For CAAT-A Members
This document will be revised and updated as appropriate
Current version: December 16, 2021
1. What is Work-to-Rule?Work-to-rule is any job action in which employees do their jobs exactly as outlined by the rules
Faculty Members: (Version française en bas)The College Presidents (and their bargaining agent, the College Employer Council) have unilaterallyimposed terms and conditions of employment on all of us. They have simply refused to discuss ourremaining issues or accept our offer to refer them to binding interest arbitration;
Greetings all:Unfortunately, the Colleges and CEC team have rejected faculty’s offer to extend the existing Collective Agreement until at least January 3, and have opted to impose terms and conditions of their choosing on Monday, December 13. To be clear, the CEC has chosen labour disruption over further negotiations or
College faculty hand bargaining teamstrike mandateTORONTO – OPSEU/SEFPO President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says a strike mandate shows the union’s college faculty members want a collective agreement reached at the bargaining table. OPSEU/SEFPO’s faculty members voted 59 per cent in favour of job action to back contract demands in
Greetings Faculty:
Over the last two nights, the faculty bargaining team has held two provincewide bargaining update meetings, with over 2,400 faculty attendees in attendance. These meetings were in addition to the General Membership meetings that the team attended at seventeen different Union Locals over
College faculty bargaining team invites faculty to provincewide update meetings
The CAAT-A Bargaining Team will be holding two faculty meetings via Zoom (December 7 and 8) to provide an update on bargaining and the upcoming strike mandate vote. This is an excellent opportunity for
Greetings faculty:
We have reviewed the College Employer Council team’s latest offers, including their proposal for Final Offer Selection arbitration, received through various email channels this week.
It is important to note that the faculty team offered Voluntary Binding Interest Arbitration
Well… the CEC decided to try to set up an endrun today by distributing a letter to Smokey (OPSEU president) and JP (chair of negotiating team) with an offer to our negotiating team to the college faculty through their HR departments 5 minutes after sending it to
Dear faculty:
As you may know, the CEC team walked away from negotiations yesterday without responding to our offer for voluntary binding arbitration, and has asked the conciliator for a “no board” report.
It is simply false that the faculty team