By Nora Loreto Yesterday morning, I had the opportunity to talk with CBC radio morning shows about academic freedom: what is it and why is it important to professors. And most importantly, why is it so important that it’s at the centre of a 4-week strike that has no end in sight? Academic Freedom has Continue readingWhy is academic freedom prolonging the Ontario college strike?
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By Paula Greenberg I am a student at Humber in the Child and Youth Accelerated program. I decided to return to school after years of precarious employment in the Arts. My return to school has meant so much for me, giving me new career opportunities and a chance for decent work. This strike has deeply Continue readingWhy students should support Ontario’s striking college faculty
By Johanna Wright* On October 16, faculty, librarians, and counsellors, represented by OPSEU, at 26 Ontario colleges began a strike. I am one of them. For the last several years, I’ve been working as a contract teacher at various colleges and universities in the GTA, cobbling together a living from semester to semester. For me, Continue readingPicketing part-time blues at Ontario Colleges
The failure to hire full-time faculty has led to a staffing crisis in Ontario colleges. Part-time, partial-load, and sessional faculty (collectively known as contract faculty) now outnumber full-time faculty nearly three to one, without accounting for the large number teaching in continuing education, online and part-time studies. Meanwhile, with tuition increases raising the cost of Continue readingWeekend Video: Ontario college faculty fight concessions
By David Camfield The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) went on strike on November 1 and returned to work with a new contract on November 22. UMFA is the union for around 1200 workers: people classified as professors, most librarians, and instructors (teaching staff whose contracts are open-ended or longer than a year; teachers Continue readingSolid strike wins gains at the University of Manitoba
By Scott Price 1200 professors, instructors and librarians at the University of Manitoba are on strike. Picket Lines started at 7am on November 1 after talks between the university administration and University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) broke down. Picket lines are at four locations. Three around the Fort Garry campus area in south Winnipeg Continue readingUnderstanding the University of Manitoba Strike
By Jesse Cullen Students play an unique and important role in our society (disclaimer: I am a student). By virtue of attending a college or a university, students generate wealth as whole industries and communities are built around post-secondary institutions. Through college apprenticeships, university research, learning, and teaching, students produce social goods such as knowledge, Continue readingStudent unions as a weapon for the working class
The Common Interest of Elementary, Secondary, and Post-Secondary Teachers By Jeff Noonan Vice-President (Internal) Windsor University Faculty Association As Alan Sears demonstrates in his superb Retooling the Mind Factory, the values the school system will serve has been a fundamental political-economic problem for over a century. Mass education developed as a response to economic changes Continue readingProtecting Education from Schooling
Northern B.C. faculty paid less than those at comparable institutions by Tyson Kelsall Twitter tags: #unbcstrike, @UNBCFA, @UNBC, #cityofpg, #bcpoli, #canlab The faculty of the University of Northern British Columbia has been on strike since 5 March 2015. Negotiations have been taking place since May 2014. UNBC’s latest offer is a 5.5 per cent salary Continue reading#UNBCstrike: A fight for fair pay
Unpaid work | PIPSC convention | Canadian Hockey League | Ontario colleges | Campbellton, NB lockout | BC public sector bargaining | Saskatchewan privatization | Temporary Foreign Workers Program | Federal sick leave | Marikana massacre | San Francisco minimum wage Encouraging youth to engage in unpaid work is a recipe for exploitation Jerry Dias, Continue readingRankandfile.ca Labour News Update: November 10, 2014
Rail safety | EI reform fiasco | Bill C-377 | NGF Guelph strike | Saskatoon transit lockout | Live-in caregiver program | Good Jobs Summit | Pensions study | ETFO anti-racism | Canada-Korea Free Trade | Ontario health and safety | Dalhousie post-docs Rail Safety New Teamsters TV Commercial on rail safety Train cars that Continue readingRankandFile.ca Labour News Update: October 13, 2014
Nova Scotia’s Bill 1 | US Steel | Montreal firefighters | Saskatoon transit lockout | EI Reform | Migrant farm workers | Lac-Mégantic & rail safety | Edmonton senior care workers | Mount Pearl lockout | Guelph glass strike | UWindsor tentative agreement | Hong Kong strikes for democracy Nova Scotia’s Bill 1 Nova Scotia Continue readingRankandFile.ca Labour News Update: October 6, 2014