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    • Who are we – a letter from Tom Tomassi
    • Contact Us
    • Membership & Sign-up
  • Collective Agreement
    • Full time: SWF
      • The SWF Process
      • SWF FAQs
      • Quick SWF Check
      • CWMG (College Workload Monitoring Group)
      • Seniority Lists
    • Partial-Load Faculty
    • Benefits
      • Dental and Extended Health
      • ISTTP (The In-Service Teacher Training Program) to Maximize Your Salary
      • OPSEU Member Discounts
      • Pension
      • Scholarships & Bursaries
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21 November

Back to work: it seems that management is abdicating their responsibilities with regard to swfs.

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Bargaining

After our first day back post-strike most of us are getting the same response from management – there will be no new or revised swfs to reflect either the extended semester or the additional work.  The bargaining team has drafted

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19 November

Back to work legislation has been passed: return to work protocol

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

Our bargaining team is still working on improving the teaching and learning conditions for faculty and students, but in the meantime have prepared a few documents that are worth reading as we start thinking about meeting our students after a

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17 November

Manager compensation exposed – then hidden

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

A wiley faculty member posted this just before the page became password protected on the OCASA site: http://www.ocasa.on.ca/system/files/2009%20AdmincompEnglishGuidelinesFinal_0.pdf
What’s OCASA?  The Ontario College Administrative Staff Association.  That’s right — our administrators, supervisors, chairs, deans, and VPs.  The college management, in short,

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16 November

Bargaining has collapsed again… back to work legislation coming.

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

Today the governing liberals will be tabling legislation that will send this round of bargaining to binding arbitration.  AS we await details of what is in that – including back to work protocols – there is one issue that needs

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16 November

The CEC is rejected: Bargain or Resign!

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

College faculty reject contract, call on employer to get back to the table
TORONTO – Ontario college faculty have rejected a contract offer from their employer and are calling on the College Employer Council to come back to the table

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14 November

Seagull Bargaining

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

SeaGull Bargaining:
We’ll Be Dealing with the Smell of This Offer for Years if We Accept It… At All Levels of the Colleges.
So the College Employers Council (CEC) gives Faculty an offer that’s basically equivalent to the offer they

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14 November

Legal opinion on CEC’s misleading statements

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

We received the following e-mail from one of Humber College’s law faculty…

SUBJECT: Comments/Observations regarding CEC Webcast of November 13th
After listening to the CEC Webcast regarding the Forced Offer Vote  today, I noticed some inaccurate and misleading  statements

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14 November

Price Waterhouse Report on fiscal sustainability of colleges and analysis

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Uncategorized

PWC: Fiscal Sustainability of Ontario Colleges  {read the full report here}

Here are some key points from the report to focus on, along with brief comments (all commentary/analysis is in bold; all other text is taken directly from the

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13 November

Updated: Why we are voting NO!

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Strike

Our analysis:

a longer article from the folks at Humber describing just how much of a set back this latest offer is
our own Noor Kabani’s analysis.
a comparison of the CEC’s  final offer with ours.

 
The

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13 November

Updated: details of the voting process released by the OLRB

  • Posted by Taras Gula
  • Categories Strike

Below the poster you will find direct links to the Ontario Labour Relations Board.  Please send emails about anomalies or difficulties with the voting to opseu556@gmail.com.
 
 
 

Our analysis:

a longer article from the folks at

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