These posts are copies of e-mail updates we have sent out to you. Some messages are targeted for certain segments of the membership.
Please review the message below from our CAAT-A Divisional Executive. If you have questions please join us at today’s Practice Picket from 12-1 outside the Woodroffe Avenue campus entrance — we will be there and are happy to talk. In solidarity, Tracy Henderson, President Local 415 Dear members, We are at a crossroads. The Ontario college system is being dismantled
This message is a follow up on recent communications from OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick (see below) and last night’s well-attended faculty Town Hall regarding the possible Support Staff strike that could begin as early as Thursday, September 11th. As we all know, the future of our colleges has never been more at risk. This moment calls for all of us
Please join us Thursday, August 28 from 12 PM to 2 PM for our General Membership Meeting (GMM). You will find the meeting agenda here. The draft minutes from our May 22 GMM are available here. The August 28 GMM will be held in room T130, and we invite you to bring your own lunch; we will provide cookies and
Exactly a year out from when we first gave Notice to Bargain, full-time and partial-load faculty have been awarded a three-year collective agreement, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027. Despite bargaining in a tumultuous climate, we have achieved significant gains – including improvements for partial-load faculty, the most significant remedies on workload since the introduction of the workload
The June 2025 edition of Local Lines is now available. Many thanks to all who contributed to this issue. In addition, please register and attend tonight’s emergency town hall at 7 pm. We sent out an invitation on Monday, under the subject line “Enough is Enough: Save our Colleges NOW.” Check your messages for details, or you can also just click
The public college system is under attack, and Algonquin College is seeing the effects as much as any other campus. In the last year alone, we’ve seen the announced closure of some 40 programs, layoff threats to over a hundred faculty, the closure of an entire campus, and the spectre of more in the near future. This is taking a human
This is a final reminder for our Local 415 General Membership Meeting (GMM) tomorrow, May 22, starting at 12 PM in-person in B170 and also online. NOTE: Part-Time and Sessional members must attend in-person; registration will open at 11:15 AM in B170. If you have not had time to pre-register, you still can by signing up here using your non-college
Please join us Thursday, May 22 from 12 PM to 2 PM for our General Membership Meeting (GMM). You will find the meeting agenda here. The meeting will be held in room B170, and we invite you to bring your own lunch; we will provide cookies and coffee/water. Please note: At the meeting, we will provide an update on local
Have you registered for the Partial-Load Registry? If yes, excellent! If no, this is your final reminder that as a Partial-Load member, you must ensure that your name is entered onto the Partial-Load Registry for the Academic Year 2025-26. The deadline to register is TODAY – there are no exceptions for late registration. Don’t overthink whether you qualify or not.
Have you already registered on the Partial-Load Registry for this year? If so, you can ignore the rest of this message. If not, and if you only registered last year, you must re-register this year, and you will want to keep reading. What is the Partial-Load Registry? The Partial-Load (PL) Registry was one of the gains from the 2017 strike which provides tracking of
Have you registered for the Partial-Load Registry this year? As a Partial-Load member you must ensure that your name is entered/re-entered onto the Partial Load Registry for the Academic Year 2025-26 by APRIL 30, 2025 – there are no exceptions for late registration. To apply for the Partial-Load Registry, click here and fill out the form controlled by Algonquin College’s Human
Dear Members, Steward nominations for your Local Executive Committee (LEC) closed yesterday at 12 noon. The following members have been acclaimed as stewards for the term of April 10, 2025 to May 29, 2026: April Mallett (Woodroffe) Carolyn Cote (Woodroffe) Jon Parker (Woodroffe) Kenneth Warner (Woodroffe) Melissa Spears (Woodroffe) Robert Brandon (Woodroffe) Sarfraz Fayaz Khan (Woodroffe) Shelley Robertson (Woodroffe) Tony
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