We are one of 24 colleges in Ontario belonging to the CAAT (Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology) division. There are about 14,000 CAAT employees, and we are divided into CAAT-A (academic) and CAAT-S (support).
Full-Time
Local 415 full-time (FT) members include professors, instructors, librarians, and counsellors. Typically, new FT members are on probation for one year after being hired.
Partial-Load
Local 415 partial-load (PL) members make up approximately a third of the bargaining unit. Article 26 of the CA applies exclusively to PL employees, which includes PL professors and PL instructors. To be PL you must have a contract for 7-12 hours of teaching in a semester, for at least 7 consecutive weeks. With our most recent CA, it is now the college’s obligation to register members on the Partial-Load Registry by April 30 each calendar year. Your PL Liaison steward is Jordan Berard who can be reached at partialload@opseulocal415.org.
Membership
If you have not signed your OPSEU membership form, please do so and contact us at comms@locallines.org with your completed form.
Part-Time/Sessional
If you are teaching 1-6 hours or +13 hours in a semester, you are considered part-time (PT) or sessional (SL), respectively. Thanks to the April 2025 Ontario Labour Relations Board decision, all PT and SL members are now part of the Local 415 bargaining unit. That is, you can vote on union matters and attend meetings.