College Faculty bargaining update: With No Board requested, it’s time to make mediation count
Despite nearly 30 days of bargaining, 4 days of conciliation, a historic strike mandate, and 3 days of mediation, the College Employer Council (CEC) continues to table a contract that amounts to a step backward for college faculty, worsening our working conditions – all while helping manufacture a crisis that threatens cuts to frontline members at Ontario’s colleges.
Today, after carefully reviewing our options, we have taken two (2) important steps in response to the College Employer Council’s (CEC) unwillingness to bargain a fair contract without concessions:
- We requested a No-Board report from the Ministry of Labour.
- We filed an Unfair Labour Practice complaint with the Ministry of Labour
The no-board report is a lever available to both sides that, once issued, begins a 16-day countdown before labour action, or a lockout, can commence. The terms and conditions of the collective agreement are frozen during this time. Bargaining can continue throughout, and beyond, this countdown.
College faculty will be in a legal position to call for any form of labour action in the new year.
Please read the latest bargaining update here: College Faculty bargaining update: With No Board requested, it’s time to make mediation count