Steward Nomination Results
Dear Members, Steward nominations for your Local Executive Committee (LEC) closed Friday April 26 at 12 noon. The following members have been acclaimed as stewards for the term of May 30, 2024 to May 29, 2026: Woodroffe: Pembroke: Please help us in welcoming the 2024-2026 Local 415 stewards. Congratulations! In solidarity, Melissa ShawRegional Vice-President, OPSEU/SEFPO […]
Coordinator Gains & Updates
The college has prepared a Coordinator Duty Guidelines document which is currently being used in coordinator discussions. While this document is a step in the right direction of supporting dialogue about coordination duties, this isn’t a document endorsed by the Local. Our advice to anyone considering accepting coordination duties is to use the document as […]
Open House – April 9, 12-4
All Local 415 members are invited to drop by our union office (A207a) on Tuesday, April 9 between 12-4 for our April Open House. We will have information about routine course renewal (RCR) time open to full-time teaching faculty, as well as the 10 days of professional development open to all full-time academic employees. You […]
Demystifying the Demands for the Feb. 20 Demand-Set Meeting
Our Local demand-set meeting is next week on Tuesday! Have you registered or do you need to register here? We are offering both options for in-person or online attendance. Just make sure you sign up and attend so you participate in the shaping of our next collective agreement! Below, you can read a first-hand account […]
Open House – February 6, 12-6
All Local 415 members are invited to drop by our union office (A207a) on Tuesday, February 6 between 12-6 to discuss any questions related to your workload, whether you have a SWF or other workload, including contracts. Do your class size projections line up with your actual class sizes? Have you wondered about the factors […]
Revised Message #3: Local demand-set – another issue to consider for February 20th
Our Local demand-set meeting is approaching — here is another issue to consider. Did you know that Partial-Load colleagues can be assigned to teach twice as many students as their full-time counterparts without any corresponding increase in pay? For full-time teaching faculty, the Standard Workload Formula (or “SWF”, a hard-fought gain of our 1984 job […]
Local demand-set – another issue to consider for February 20th
Our Local demand-set meeting is just over 1 month away. Here is another issue to start thinking about. Did you know that our current Collective Agreement does not include a sunset provision? A sunset clause allows letters of discipline to be removed from an employee’s personnel file after time has passed. It is common for […]
Save the date – February 20 Bargaining Demand-Set Meeting
Do you have concerns about our working conditions? What do you want to change? Join us on Tuesday, February 20 from 5-8 p.m. (possibly ending earlier, based on discussion) for our Local 415 Demand-Set meeting. The meeting is the first stage in the 2024 CAAT-A collective bargaining process and will be offered both in person […]
Winter Message 2023
As we wrap up 2023 Fall and prepare for some much-deserved time away from college work, we wanted to highlight some of our accomplishments. We began this academic year by concluding the 2021 round of bargaining. We thank the full bargaining team, including Shawn Pentecost, our Local Treasurer and Pembroke steward, who represented us both […]
No place for hate on our campus
We share in our community’s outrage at the recent antisemitic and hateful acts of vandalism on our campus. There is no place at our college for antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Arab, anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism. We raise our voices against all forms of oppression and persecution which affect people and marginalized groups on a day-to-day basis. The […]