Non-unionized, precarious Ontario college faculty fiercely devoted to fairness and equity on campus.
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It's about time! After almost 7 years our votes will finally be counted!
#Fairness4CF
@OPSEU @CAATfaculty
Big news in our bid to unionize all part-time faculty at Ontario's 24 community colleges after nearly seven years of stalling tactics. opseu354.ca/part-time-facult…
After a 20 year battle - we won! With 88% of ballot-casters voting "yes" we can finally say: over 16,000 part-time & sessional college faculty across Ontario will join OPSEU/SEFPO in one of the largest organizing drives in Canadian history. #onted #onpoli #onlab #cdnpoli
ALT OPSEU/SEFPO leaders celebrate workers' victory in a group photo with fists raised.
Oh yeah, we can tell you about this--because we live it.
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2/3 of workers #TrainingOntariosFuture in College classrooms are non-fulltime.
They do over half the teaching in the system👀👀
Precarity hurts communities. #SDoH
Tune in at noon @CBCOntarioToday @DeenaLadd @fairwagesnow
Unfortunately, the part-time & sessional contract faculty at Ontario's colleges can tell you a thing or two about precarity.
#Fairness4CF #onpse
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“It cannot be emphasized enough how unusual it is in Canada for a publicly funded post-secondary institution to so aggressively resist its employees’ attempts to access collective bargaining.”
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🤔Hmmm, like Ontario colleges holding up the counting of our unionization vote for almost SEVEN years…?
At least the votes will FINALLY be counted this week!
#Fairness4CF @OPSEU
It's time for our voices to be heard!!
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OLRB decision paves the way towards the long-deserved recognition of part-time and sessional faculty voices!
#Fairness4CF
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Count the votes!!
#Fairness4CF #onpse
Hear, hear! 👇👇
(count our unionization vote!)
#Fairness4CF
This is a problem across the entire Ontario college sector.
The reliance on (and exploitation of) precariously-employed contract faculty is detrimental to students, faculty, and the system as a whole.
Time for a responsible, ethical academic staffing model!
#onpse
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We have some actual dates scheduled to resolve issues surrounding our 2017 certification vote.
Time for the @CECouncil to stop stonewalling & let the ballot boxes be opened!
Part-time & sessional faculty are ready to become @OPSEU members!
#Fairness4CF
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How close to opening the ballot boxes?
And why is no one talking about this shameful delay?
6 years?!
We voted: count the votes!
@CollegesOntario @CECouncil @OPSEU
A reminder that 6 years after the union certification vote and the College Employer Council fighting against the union certification vote for part-time and sessional faculty, we are continuing to get closer to being able to open the ballot boxes. @CAATfaculty
This really is great news!
Now if only the unionization vote of thousands of part-time and sessional Ontario college faculty would be counted (we voted almost SIX years ago), we too could have fair representation.
#Fairness4CF @OPSEU @CollegesOntario
Breaking: Ontario College Faculty secure salary and benefit increases in #Bill124 wage reopener negotiations. Congratulations to the @CAATfaculty bargaining team and membership. For more information visit opseu.org/news/ontario-colle… #onpoli #onlab
ALT Ontario College Faculty win increases in Bill 124 wage reopener negotiations! Read the news release.
The Ontario college system too!
#Fairness4CF #OnPSE
OCUFA President Sue Wurtele highlights how provincial underfunding of our public university system results in an overreliance on precarious, contract faculty positions. Precarity is not a solution to our funding crisis. We need #fairness4cf across #onPSE now. #onpoli
A shameful anniversary is upon us:
It has been 5 YEARS since thousands of part-time & sessional Ontario college faculty voted on #OPSEU representation.
Their votes have never been counted.
Will they ever be counted?
@OPSEU @CollegesOntario @CECouncil
#Fairness4CF #onpse
This is how it should work: a group of workers vote on joining a union; their vote is counted; they have @OPSEU representation.
Part-time Ontario College faculty voted over 4 years ago! Our vote has still NOT been counted.
@CollegesOntario @CECouncil
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"The only thing known for sure...is that any resolution remains many months away."
Many more months with: zero job security; zero paid sick days; zero hiring transparency, etc.
All faculty deserve to be treated with fairness & decency. NOW.
#onpse
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Congratulations to Amazon workers whose right to unionize has been acknowledged by counting their votes.
Part-time & sessional Ontario college faculty also voted on union representation--over FOUR years ago!
There's still been no count.
Count our votes!
#onpse #Fairness4CF
Yes, more managers--and maximizing the number of precariously employed faculty members.
'Putting students first'....?
'Associate Vice Presidents', 'Senior Managers', 'Deputy Chairs'.
It's important not just to pad the ranks of already-existing management roles, but also to invent new roles and titles.
Because apparently "putting students first" means more managers...🤔
#onpse
The CEC is also the organization that has spent years preventing the counting of the part-time faculty unionization vote from 2017. Over 4 years now!
What are they afraid of? Count the votes!
#Fairness4CF #onpse
The College Employer Council for Ontario's colleges is a shadowy third party that has neither an investment in education nor accountability to the students. #canlab #cdnpse #onpoli @CAATfaculty springmag.ca/ontario-college…
And the entire college sector relies on the work of underappreciated and overworked precariously employed part-time and sessional faculty.
#2021HES #onpse
Part-time and sessional faculty still want @OPSEU representation like our full-time and partial-load colleagues.
The only drawback will be that then we'll have to deal with the CEC's bullying too.
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