Bargaining 2017 Recap - OPSEU Local 110

Here is a helpful table recapping the outcome of 2017 Ontario College Faculty negotiations.

What happened in 2017?

The following is the aftermath of the Kaplan award, excluding the immediate arrangements for returning to work after the strike:

What the Union got

What the College Employer Council got

Wage increases of 1.75%, 2%, 2%, 2%·
Staffing: Article 2 returns to its previous form – no freeze on union challenging staffing
Online: Article 11.01 B2 – establishes that a Teaching Contact Hour (TCH) is a teaching contact hour, no matter which mode is used to delivery the course
Workload Article 11.02 C2 – WMG can now formally consider the number of students requiring accommodation
Academic Freedom: incorporated directly into the CA
Benefits: Paramedical coverage cap increases from $1,500/year to $2,000/year
Benefits: Added social workers and psychotherapists to the list of paramedical providers
Partial Load: College will endeavour to have contracts to partial-load faculty prior to the start of the term
Partial Load: move partial-load faculty up the salary grid faster so they are not waiting for years to progress
Partial Load Registry for work assignment
Initial Salary Calculation: raised maximum credit for formal qualifications from 6 years to 7 years
Provincial Task Force: to examine faculty complement, precarious work, provincial funding of the colleges, student mental health, academic governance, intellectual property
Bill 148 “Equal Pay for Equal Work”: Parties agree to discuss changes to the CA related to Bill 148
Counsellors: Parties agree to review the class definition of a Counsellor and consider updates

4-year term for the Collective Agreement·
Staffing: Union can’t rely on old 2014-2017 staffing data to file staffing grievances
Initial Salary Calculation: Management can allocate up to 5 discretionary steps at hiring, can ask to allocate more, but to do so requires union consent “which shall not be unreasonably withheld”

It is important to note what the Ontario Government took away in the intervening years 2018-2020:

What the Ford Government took away

Future wage increases limited to 1% for 3 years through Bill 124·
Bill 148 “Equal Pay for Equal Work”: Bill 148 was repealed
Provincial Task Force: was cancelled

The following is a history of wage increases in the system:

Sept 1, 2002 – 2%
April 1, 2003 – 1%
Sept 1, 2003 – 3%
April 1, 2004 – 0.5%
Sept 1, 2004 – 2%
April 1, 2005 – 1%
Sept 1, 2005 – 3%
Sept 1, 2006 – 3%
Sept 1, 2007 – 3.5%
Sept 1, 2008 – 4%
Sept 1, 2009 – 1.75%
Sept 1, 2010 – 2%
Sept 1, 2011 – 2%
2012 – 0%
2013 – 0%
Sept 1, 2014 – 1%
Sept 1, 2015 – 1%
Sept 1, 2016 – 1%
Oct 1, 2017 – 1.75%
Oct 1, 2018 – 2%
Oct 1, 2019 – 2%
Oct 1, 2020 – 2%
Oct 1, 2021 – 1% (Bill 124)
Oct 1, 2022 – 1% (Bill 124)
Oct 1, 2023 – 1% (Bill 124)