General Membership Meeting – February 10, 2022
Please join us Thursday, February 10th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM for our Local 415 General Membership Meeting (GMM). Please find the meeting agenda here. To participate, please follow these key steps: Using your non-college e-mail address, sign up here for our General Membership Meeting. Register before 2:00 PM on, Thursday February 10th, 2022. If you require an accommodation […]
Bargaining: Write Your College President!
Support the only option that puts students first! Help us send a message to College Presidents and Boards of Governors Chairs. As college leaders, their primary responsibility is to put students first and build community. Right now, that means supporting the only option that puts students first and allows faculty to focus on student success. […]
Local 415 Town Hall on Bargaining
As you have seen from recent communications, despite efforts at mediation initiated by our CAAT-A Bargaining Team, the College Employer Council continues to take an adversarial position. At this stage, we are eager to hear from you, our membership. Please join us this Thursday, November 4 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM at our Local 415 Bargaining Town Hall. At […]
GMM (General Membership Meeting): Friday September 3rd
Please join us on Friday, September 3, from 12 to 1:30 PM, for our Local 415 General Membership Meeting (GMM). You will find the meeting agenda here. At the meeting, we will provide an update on local and provincial matters, as well as proceed with elections to union committees for the 2021-22 academic year. To participate, please follow […]
College Vaccination Policy
Earlier this month, Ottawa’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Vera Etches, sent a letter to post-secondary institutions indicating her support for policies requiring on-campus self-identification of vaccination status. We have seen post-secondary institutions in Ottawa, as well as across the province, begin to issue vaccination policies and have been told that Algonquin College will issue one […]
Bargaining Update: Opening Statements
The teams met on July 7 and 8 to discuss ground rules, set the tone for bargaining, and exchange initial proposals. Here are the opening statements and summaries of initial proposals that were tabled by and by the . Two factors distinguished this round of bargaining from previous rounds, from the start: We are bargaining […]