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 Part-Time and Sessional Bargaining Team. I encourage you to review this meaningful and brand new role and engage as appropriate. In solidarity, Tracy Henderson, President Local 415 Hello, As Part Time and Sessional faculty head into bargaining, we need to ensure that we have the majority of PT/SL faculty engaged. We are
The November/December 2025 edition of Local Lines – our Local 415 newsletter – is now available. Many thanks to all who contributed to this issue. In solidarity, Kim BoschLocal 415 Steward and Local Lines Editor
We urgently need your support in signing this joint petition demanding that Claude Brule, President of Algonquin College, release the long-awaited Efficiency and Accountability Report. At other colleges, these reports have exposed plans for deep cuts, mergers, and privatization that threaten jobs, programs, and the quality of education itself. Despite being asked repeatedly by members of the college community, Pres. Brule
The October 2025 edition of Local Lines – our Local 415 newsletter – is now available. Many thanks to all who contributed to this issue. In solidarity, Kim BoschLocal 415 Steward and Local Lines Editor
The Bargaining Team for the first CAAT-A PT/SL Division has developed a Demand Set Survey to gather members’ priorities. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey below. Your participation and engagement helps inform the demands your team takes to the table and strengthens our academic community. Demand Set Survey links: The survey is available in English and French, is anonymous, and
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
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