Escalation of Job Action – Potential Strike
As of today, all CAAT-A Locals are beginning to prepare for a strike. This is happening because the College Employer Council has refused to negotiate or agree to binding interest arbitration, where an arbitrator would lead the way to a settlement. Both options have remained open to the CEC since November. The Colleges could end this dispute immediately. However, the […]
Legal rationale work-to-rule
Attached please find the letter from our legal team regarding the lawfulness of our work-to-rule actions. Please note in particular: “The direction to engage in a strike, and the nature of the strike action, are matters for the union to determine. The College Employer Council (CEC) and the Colleges have no role to play in […]
Phase 3 Work-to-Rule Information
The Colleges’ team, via the CEC, continues to assert that they will not return to the bargaining table, nor agree to refer outstanding issues to interest arbitration, despite faculty having clearly rejected their final offer. Typically, in bargaining, following a failed final offer vote, the employer concedes that they need to move on workers’ demands. […]
On behalf of our entire leadership team, thank you for participating in the vote on the employer’s forced offer. We are grateful to you for participating in the process and having your voice heard, particularly during this difficult round of negotiations. Of the 699 ballots cast at Algonquin College, 373 rejected the College Employer Council’s offer. […]
College faculty reject contract, call on employer to negotiate or arbitrate
Ontario college faculty have rejected a contract offer from their employer and are calling on the College Employer Council to either come back to the table and finish the job of negotiating a collective agreement, or enter into voluntary binding interest arbitration. In voting this week, 62% per cent of you voted to reject Council’s January […]
Members Lacking Vote PINs
As you know, the forced offer vote on the Employer’s offer will end on Thursday at 3:00 P.M. We hope to receive the results on Friday. If you have not received a PIN for voting from the Ontario Labour Relations Board, please e-mail the bargaining team IMMEDIATELY, at bargainingteam2021@gmail.com. Please contact us regardless of whether […]
Tomorrow’s Vote: a Message from Local 415 President
Starting tomorrow, faculty have an opportunity to vote on the employer’s offer. If that offer were fair, it would be my duty as union president to recommend it to you. While the offer contains new and updated language, these changes do not enhance the union’s ability to support faculty members in key areas, like workload […]
Voting, Next Steps and Positive Thoughts
Just a friendly reminder that the CEC-requested forced offer vote starts tomorrow, February 15 at 9am, and runs through February 17 at 3pm. Results will be shared by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) on February 18th. The faculty team is encouraging faculty to REJECT the CEC’s offer as it does not address faculty’s key […]
Weekly Bargaining Update – Feb 11
We know that many of you have been receiving a constant barrage of information from the CEC, and that it is difficult to sift through the information, both in terms of volume and legitimacy of the content. The faculty bargaining team has truly appreciated the ability to meet with and hear from many of you […]
Bill 124 And Faculty Workload
It has been an eventful and exciting week in bargaining so far, and we wanted to share the following update with you regarding faculty workload proposals and Bill 124. Please pass it along to your faculty colleagues, but we ask that you not post the brief in its entirety on social media or other public […]