College faculty reject contract, call on employer to get back to the table
November 16, 2017 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 this afternoon and finish the job of negotiating a collective agreement. In […]
Local 415 Strike Update
Voting on Forced Offer continues Wednesday There has been a very heavy turnout on the first day of voting based on reports from the Woodroffe lines with a resounding “Reject” based on members volunteering their voting preferences. If you did not have a chance to vote on Tuesday, please vote ASAP on Wednesday. If you […]
Local 415 Strike Update
Voting on Forced Offer begins Tuesday at 9:00 am You may vote beginning Tuesday with the PIN sent to you from the OLRB to your Algonquin email address. Please vote as soon as possible. If you did not receive an email on November 13, 2017 outlining how to vote and providing a personalidentification number (PIN), you […]
Reject the colleges’ offer
Dear faculty members: Your bargaining team is unanimous in our recommendation to reject Council’s offer. The offer you are to vote on is filled with concessions that will gut our system for years to come, cost each of us more in unpaid work after the strike, and further expand the ranks of the most marginalized […]
Local 415 Strike Update
Email access for the Forced Offer Vote If you have not done so, please check that your college email password is valid. If it has expired, please contact IT at 5555 ASAP. Access to the password is crucial in order to vote November 14-16. PIN numbers for voting available on Monday, November 13 – […]
Return to Work Protocol Calculations of payback salaries
Return to work Protocol please review here Please note that there are two tabs in our attached spreadsheet – one for full-time professor, counsellors, librarians and full-time instructors.
VOTE NO and REJECT the colleges’ offer
VOTE NO and REJECT the colleges’ offer See Bulletin here The contract offer put forward by the College Employer Council on November 6 is a bad one for faculty – and the students we teach. It entrenches inequity and takes us backwards on academic freedom. Here’s why all faculty should vote NO: 1. This offer allows […]
Cancellation of College Email Forwarding
It has been brought to the attention of the local that by request of their manager prior to going on strike, some faculty have forwarded their college email directly to their manager. In anticipation of receiving pins for the vote on Monday, as a method of safeguarding this information, members who may have done this are […]
Details of college faculty vote
Attached are the details of next week’s vote. https://opseu.org/news/olrb-provides-details-college-faculty-vote Highlights: METHOD OF LAST OFFER VOTE The vote will be conducted ON-LINE or by TELEPHONE. ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE Eligible voters are those in the Academic unit covering full-time and partial load employees. VOTE DATES The vote period will open from 9.00 a.m. ET on Tuesday November 14, […]
Comparison of Management and Union Offers
Attached is a document that compares the final offer from the Council and the Union’s final offer. Both offers are also included in the document. Please find the RTW protocol that was included in our offer of Nov. 6, 2017 to management. here In solidarity, The Bargaining Team