Vote YES Because Quality Education Matters: Bargaining Update
It shouldn’t be getting harder for College Faculty to have good, stable jobs. Yet the Colleges are ready to sacrifice quality education by coming after student and faculty futures.
Today, we were back at the bargaining table and preparing for our first day of conciliation tomorrow. Despite the employer’s inconsistent “commitment” to bargaining a negotiated settlement, we remain focused on our goal: advancing member demands – brought to the table through our democratic processes – and fighting off dozens of serious concessions.
Concessions tabled by the CEC and the Colleges include:
- Introducing new layoff provisions, increasing job instability;
- Extending the academic year to 12 months for everyone, posing risks to our vacation blocks, 11th month overtime provisions, and non-teaching periods (11.08);
- Two-tiering workload protections, targeting faculty already facing inequitable workload pressures – including members in academic upgrading and trades;
- Reducing teaching time (e.g. asynchronous course teaching contact hours) with serious implications for workload and Partial-Load faculty seniority and status;
- Introducing a new probationary period for Partial-Load faculty – upwards of 2 years – creating new barriers to job security;
- Removing five (5) consecutive professional development (PD) days and further restricting, reducing, directing and controlling our access to PD.
Starting October 15, vote YES for a strike mandate – because quality education matters. An overwhelming YES vote will send a strong message to the Colleges that we are united behind our demands.
Please read the latest bargaining update here: Vote YES Because Quality Education Matters: Bargaining Update