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Negotiating Team, Consult Your Members
from the pen of Ed Ksenych
This is going to be a risky article for many reasons. So if you’re not up for it in the midst of a college faculty – college management dispute,

Here is a letter that nicely sums up the issues of quality from Allan Esser
Dear premier
A few weeks back, I was walking down Madison Avenue in Toronto’s Annex Neighborhood.  Madison Avenue is a beautiful tree lined street that

Please read the following article written by one of our elders: Ed Ksenych.
you can get it here

Opseu Strike bulletin 1: 
Opseu Strike bulletin 2: 
Newspaper and other media Articles: 
CBC online  articles:  1   2   We’re Ready to Talk…Let’s Go.  Featuring our own Judy Lashley.
Inside higher ed:  university perspective on part time teaching
           Part time

Please read the following 4 documents as we head down to the wire:
detailed offer of settlement
Press release English or French
Bulletin 14
 
Thanks to the bargaining team for their measured and wise approach.
 
 

The newest final offer presented by the College Employers Council and their spin of it requires some fairly sophisticated deconstruction.  Bulletin 12 and 13 attempt to do that for those of us who are not contract law experts.

Today was another frustrating day for our negotiating team and a strike deadline was set for Monday Morning October 16.  Read the press release from the negotiations team in English or in French.  This does not mean that there will

After months of not negotiating  there may be hope for movement from the College Employment Council as they consider their options.
Please read negotiations bulletin #11.

We have been inundated with questions about the possibility of a strike and what that would mean.  While we prepare answers to those questions from our local 556 perspective it would be good for all of us to get acquainted