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This issue is dedicated to exploring counselling and counsellors at Fanshawe College. There are two informative articles about personal counselling and accessibility counselling at Fanshawe, ...
Dear Members: Many of you have seen news reports about the litigation between OPSEU Head Office and its former leadership. In the words of President ...
We'd like to congratulate our counterparts at UWOFA for reaching a tentative agreement with Western!
Dear Members, On September 30 and October 3, the bargaining team had the opportunity to meet with over 1,600 college faculty provincewide, during Zoom Town ...
Support contract academic staff during Fair Employment Week! October 17-21 is Fair Employment Week, an annual campaign led by the Canadian Association of University Teachers ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OPSEU Local 110 files group grievance over lack of masking at Fanshawe College London ON, September 23, 2022 – OPSEU Local 110 ...
To: All College Faculty On September 23, Arbitrator William Kaplan awarded all OPSEU/SEFPO College Faculty members a new collective agreement that will govern our working ...
The London and District Labour Council is inviting union members, families, and everyone in our community to a Labour Day event on September 5 ...
From the Region 1 Mobilizing Team We are less than a month away from the provincial election, and we are reaching out to you in ...
WHSC post-secondary scholarship contest opens again Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) is once again offering cash scholarships to graduating high school students heading for ...
Rally aims to raise awareness on special education cuts A rally is planned outside Robarts School at 1515 Cheapside Street, London to protest provincial cuts ...
Bargaining Update: March 24, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION: Media Blackout Hello Faculty, Arbitrator William Kaplan has imposed a media blackout on the upcoming voluntary mediation-interest ...
Dear Friends, We have all been horrified by the war crimes perpetrated by Russian leader Vladimir Putin against Ukraine and the brutal and ...
FAQ: What is the College Employer Council? Updated March 10, 2022 Q: What is the College Employer Council? A: Ontario law empowers the College Employer ...
This edition of the Educator includes a tribute to Kay Wigle, stories from precarious faculty, and an explanation of Article 6 - Management Rights Educator-November ...
From the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC): Greetings, This International Women’s Day, Canada’s unions are highlighting the critical importance of care work and calling for greater ...
Bargaining Updates: February 21, 2022 Members: A number of you have been asking what the vote result of 62% to reject the CEC’s forced offer ...
Bargaining Updates: February 14, 2022 Greetings faculty: Just a friendly reminder that the CEC-requested forced offer vote starts tomorrow, February 15 at 9am, and runs ...
Doubling down on their repetitions, the CEC sent yet another propaganda email on Friday 11 February asserting that our legal opinion ignores a key part ...
Bargaining Updates: February 11, 2022 Dear Faculty: We know that many of you have been receiving a constant barrage of information from the CEC, and ...
Legal Brief Supports Faculty Proposals February 9, 2022 Throughout this round of bargaining, the College Employer Council (CEC) has repeatedly refused to negotiate significant issues ...
OPSEU Local 110 Bursary Applications are open for the OPSEU Local 110 student bursary. To be eligible, the student: -must demonstrate proof of community, labour, ...
Some of you had questions about wages and Bill 124. In this video, Local 110 President Darryl Bedford explains Bill 124, why wages haven't been ...
Members: The CEC has called a forced offer vote to be held February 15 to 17. In this video update, Local 110 President Darryl Bedford ...
OPSEU/SEFPO denounces college failures raised by AG TORONTO – OPSEU/SEFPO hopes the leaders at Ontario’s public colleges don’t ignore recent concerns expressed by the Auditor ...
Toolkit For Faculty #BargainingForBetter Zoom Background This is the College Faculty #BargainingForBetter zoom background that you can use for meetings, classes, and recordings: zoom background ...
Covid-19 Information as of January 11, 2022 OPSEU Release: https://opseu.org/news/faced-with-omicron-threat-ontario-colleges-treated-differently-thomas/140907/ This is a reminder to complete the Online Screening form each day you need to ...
Dear Peter and Gary: As you are aware, Omicron numbers continue to skyrocket. We applaud Fanshawe for its December decision to postpone our originally planned ...
December 15, 2021: An Open Letter to Fanshawe College President Peter Devlin Local 110 President Darryl Bedford's Open Letter to Fanshawe College President Devlin. December ...
December 15, 2021 Open Letter to President Devlin December 12, 2021 Greetings all: Unfortunately, the Colleges and CEC team have rejected faculty's offer to extend the ...
Speaking Points for Partial Load Faculty Given that our students generally have no idea how many of their teachers are precarious workers, it is productive ...
London and District Labour Council Statement: 555 Teeple Terrace Remembered Almost one year ago, these are the words we heard expressed in the media: Two ...
Partial-Load FAQ: Things I worried about before the 2017 strike and don’t worry about now This FAQ was prepared by a partial-load member to help ...
General FAQ: College Faculty Strike Vote A strike vote will be held this week for college faculty members represented by OPSEU/SEFPO starting December 9. ...
Auditor General Report Here is the December 2021 Auditor General Report on Ontario's Public Colleges: AR_PublicColleges_en21 Excerpts from the report: "We found that the Ministry’s ...
December 1, 2021 Click here to view the latest update video. Click here for the schedule of important bargaining dates. November 26, 2021 Local ...
Bargaining Video Update: December 1, 2021 Local President Darryl Bedford provides an update regarding Final Offer Selection, Fanshawe's privatization deal with ILAC, the issues still ...
Just a note that the following dates (relevant to the bargaining process) are now confirmed: December 7th (6:30-8:00 p.m.): Provincewide information session hosted by the CAAT-A ...
New post on One Ontario College Prof's Blog: A Seasoned GTA Prof Writes [This post is from ontariocollegeprof and we suggest you follow him!] One of ...
November 25, 2021 Greetings faculty: You have likely received a new update from the CEC, in which they “agree” to arbitration. While the faculty bargaining ...
Where Collective Bargaining Stands Now: November 23, 2021 [See the end of this post for a captioned version of the video.] Local 110 President Darryl ...
You may have heard the terms "conciliation," "conciliator," and "no board report." What does it all mean? Here's a handy bargaining FAQ that describes what ...
The Kaplan Award, Interest Arbitration 2017 This interest mediation-arbitration was convened to settle the terms and conditions of the collective agreement between the parties to ...
Bargaining Update: November 19, 2021 Team calls for strike vote to protect members from effects of CEC-requested “no board” report Dear faculty: As ...
Dear Members: Here is the latest edition of our Local’s newsletter The Educator: The Educator November 2021. Inside this issue: A Tribute to ...
Bargaining Update - November 17, 2021 This document Comparison of Offers 16 Nov 2021 compares the current offer of each bargaining team, as we enter ...
Bargaining Update - November 12, 2021 Dear Faculty, It was a pleasure to meet last night with over 1,500 members at our Provincewide Bargaining ...
Bargaining Update - November 11, 2021 Greetings Faculty: First, the team would like to take a moment this Remembrance Day and following Indigenous Veterans Day ...
Joint Public Message for distribution to members - November 5, 2021 Both the CAAT-A and CEC Bargaining teams have agreed to return to the bargaining ...
Update from the Bargaining Team on next steps following the end of mediation talks Oct. 29, 2021 – We have heard from a number of ...
Bargaining Update November 2, 2021 Greetings Faculty: As you may have heard, the College Employer Council bargaining team has chosen to file for conciliation, and ...
Vaccination Policy, Human Rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Law Union officers and stewards give advice they believe, in good faith and according ...
Bargaining Updates as of Tuesday, September 28 2021 Dear Members: The CAAT-A Bargaining Team and the CEC are in mediation with mediator Brian Keller. The ...
VISION AND HEARING CARE BENEFIT YEAR CHANGES CAAT GROUP BENEFIT INSURANCE PLAN WITH SUN LIFE The following text is directly from a Fanshawe College Benefits ...
Bargaining Updates as of Friday, September 24 We are happy to report that today, the sixteenth scheduled day of negotiations, the College Employer Council’s Bargaining ...
As of September 21, 2021 What are the issues with the employer’s offer of settlement? The CAAT-A Bargaining Team met with Local Presidents and ...
The Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (CCBA), Ontario 2008 applies to both support staff and academic employees and governs collective bargaining in the Ontario college system. ...
The issues at the current bargaining table arise out of our working conditions / our student learning conditions. This changing context is one that we ...
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Bargaining Updates as of September 14 Local 110 President Darryl Bedford prepared a brief 3-minute bargaining update video: http://www.opseu110.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sept-7-2021-Local-110-Bargaining-Update.mp4 Bargaining Update: Tuesday 14 September 2021 ...
Bargaining Updates as of September 9, 2021 8pm Local 110 President Darryl Bedford prepared a brief 3-minute bargaining update video: http://www.opseu110.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sept-7-2021-Local-110-Bargaining-Update.mp4 Bargaining Update: September 9, ...
The latest video from the College Faculty Bargaining Team: https://youtu.be/JU0P9ZB9MwY When COVID-19 turned education on its ear, college faculty rushed to bring learning online. But ...
When the Government comes for you, you better have academic freedom From Academic Matters, OCUFA's journal of higher education by Marc Spooner, University of Regina ...
London and District Labour Council Statement on the Hate Crime in London and Call for Solidarity with the Muslim Community and Action on Islamophobia The ...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, It is with deep sadness that we at the London and District Labour Council recognize that the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First ...
Ontario colleges and the real (meddling) third party By Jeff Brown, Local 556 Of the numerous misconceptions about unions, one of the most prominent and ...
Click here for the May 2021 issue of our newsletter The Educator. In this issue: A Surprise from the College Employer Council: Or was ...
This edition of the Educator includes a column on College Employer Council, COVID-19, and micro-credentials. EDUCATOR May 2021
byline M. Feltham, Chief Steward Local 110 First, I offer the obligatory disclaimer: never take tax advice from an English professor! Opening jests aside, however, ...
We appreciate you doing your part to advocate for Ontario’s workers. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without the solidarity of people ...
Attention: All Partial-Load Faculty On behalf of the CAAT-A Divisional Executive, you’re invited to the Partial Load Faculty Provincial Open House on Wednesday, March 31, ...
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 ...
Update: The member survey deadline has been extended to Tuesday, January 26, 2021. In this video, Local 110 President Darryl Bedford explains the local demand ...
The following “Frequently Asked Questions” and responses were adapted from a 2009 communication to our membership and updated based on our 2017 Collective Agreement. What ...
2020: Is it over yet? The Officers of Local 110 wish everyone a safe and peaceful break in our holiday greeting video http://www.opseu110.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/OPSEU-110-Holiday-Greeting-2020.mp4
Tropicana Community Services bills itself as a social justice organization and is majority funded by several governmental bodies, including the Province and the City of ...
On November 20-21, a group of enthusiastic CAAT-A delegates gathered virtually to survey the current bargaining environment and elect their 2021 bargaining team. Day two ...
A new resource has been added to the website for Partial Load Faculty to explain the Partial Load Service calculation. http://www.opseu110.ca/members-opseu-local-110/partial-load/how-to-check-your-seniority/
With only a few weeks left in 2020, please add your voice to request the Prime Minister honour his promise to create, in 2020, an ...
The shambling boor is finished. He walked away from the podium in the White House press room like a bear shot with a tranquilizing dart, ...
This edition of the Educator addresses the situation of Fanshawe Faculty in month 7 of the COVID crisis. EDUCATOR October 2020
Labour Day 2020 London and District Labour Council News Release Wednesday, September 2, 2020 This Labour Day, Labour Councils and unions advocate for a ...
Resources for Members - June 2020 Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic, you are not able to visit our office to pick up brochures right ...
The following is a message from the Ontario Health Coalition Long-term care deaths from COVID-19 now account for almost half of all of Ontario’s deceased. ...
When I started COVID NEWS, I had hoped to hear from other people about how they were coping with the pandemic, what they were doing, ...
THE PATTERN HOLDS (SO FAR) On Saturday, April 4, the Ontario Ministry of Health's integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) was updated from 2,794 confirmed ...
THE FACTS AND NOTHING BUT THE FACTS I know COVID19 is going to change my life. It is going to change your life Some of ...
We are now approaching a million COVID19 cases worldwide, led by the United States with over 200,000. Almost 50,000 deaths as of this morning, probably ...
It Begins I reported here two days ago that we had 31 COVID19 cases in the London area. We now have 66 and 3 fatalities. ...
Feeling Helpless? – Fight It! We all know things are going to change because of COVID-19. We don’t know what or how much, but we ...
Covid-19 News Day 2 Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Darryl's Note: This is the second issue of Covid-19 News. You may be wondering why, as of ...
COVID-19 NEWS DAY 1 30 March 2020 Where Are We Now? We are in a hard place. No sense pretending otherwise. It is going ...
Full-Time and Part-Time Support Staff at Fanshawe College now represented by Local 109 OPSEU was successful in certifying a union for part-time support staff. That ...
A must read. EDUCATOR MAY2019FINAL
The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) is pleased to offer bursaries and scholarships. Click this link for details: https://www.whsc.on.ca/resources/for-young-workers/scholarship-bursaries
Say NO to CUTS You are invited to a protest at MPP Jeff Yurek’s office 750 Talbot Street, St. Thomas Friday, March 8, 2019 11:30am ...
This issue of the Educator is devoted to a report on major changes facing the college in 2019, and a remembrance of Jerry Tapley, Labor ...
The Educator - November 2018 Final This issue of The Educator is devoted entirely to two articles, both very important, especially given the outcome of ...
The labour movement and United Way share a common vision of building a society that provides a wide range of public services that are accessible, ...
About the Scholarship OPSEU College Support Staff workers are once again offering the "OPSEU College Support Staff Marilou Martin Scholarship." This scholarship is given to ...
April 4 is the Day of Action on Equal Pay for Equal Work Ontario's new equal pay laws come into force on April 1, 2018 meaning that all ...
Dear Fanshawe students and supporters: On Sunday, November 19 back-to-work legislation passed that ended the strike of unionized faculty at all of Ontario’s public colleges. ...
The strike has come to an end now that legislation has passed. Faculty are distributing the following message to students: facultystandwithstudents_1717_en --Posted November 20, 2017
JP Hornick, Chair of the College Faculty Bargaining Team, explains why your vote to reject the offer is so important:
Members: The offer you are voting on is the November 6 2017 offer from The Council. Here is a detailed comparison of The Council and ...
Partial-load faculty: Why you should vote NO
This video is The Interrobang's coverage of the rally at Victoria Park on Thursday October 26 2017:
Please see attached some templates we recommend as a starting point for letters to your elected representatives: MPP Letter Template Deb Matthews Email Template
Please click the link below to see the attached PDF with relevant stats regarding student enrollment: Student and Full-Time Faculty Trends
Members: All unionized Fanshawe faculty members are on strike as of 12:01 AM on Monday 16 October. Members should arrive at the picket positions and times ...
Hello OPSEU Local 110 Members: In order to ensure timely strike payments we require 2 things from you: 1. Log and sign the hours you have ...
Ontario college strike begins Monday morning as employer rejects faculty offer: Please see CAAT-A Press Release October 15 2017
The path to a fair settlement: In a bid to avert a strike, the college faculty bargaining team has tabled a final offer to the ...
Strike news update: As of 12:01 AM, Monday, October 16, all full-time and partial-load faculty are on strike. If you have not yet registered ...
The Bargaining Team made a presentation and put forward the following comprehensive offer for settlement today, September 27 2017, at the bargaining table. U-06 Bargaining ...
This document is meant to assist members if questions arise from students. Members are encouraged to direct questions to our website www.collegefaculty.org. The website will ...
Partial-load faculty face a choice about what kind of a system is better for them and their students. Your union represents all partial-load and full-time ...
Over the past several months, faculty met, discussed, and voted on 16 demands that would improve the quality and fairness of the college system in ...
For your reference, this document was presented by the union's bargaining team as a comprehensive offer for settlement. Be advised that proposals are subject to ...
At great risk to her career, a partial-load professor asked us to circulate the following letter anonymously. Dear CAAT-A faculty members: I know ...
The following is Local 110's written submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (Bill 148). ...
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) has asked the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) to schedule a September strike vote for faculty at Ontario ...
On Monday July 17, Local 110 President Darryl Bedford made a presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. His comments for the ...
CAAT Academic Negotiations Bulletin #3: Negotiations are under way On July 4, the OPSEU college faculty bargaining team sat down with the management team to ...
Here's to our bargaining team as they head to the table to bring our needs to the employer. We stand with you. #aBetterPlan #caata #opseu
Revised September 7, 2017 OPSEU has published four newsletters and four videos on the issues facing Ontario's public colleges that we are seeking to address ...
We invite all contract faculty to view the video below and visit contractfaculty.ca OPSEU Makes The Difference
As a follow-up to our previous post regarding the agreement between McDonald's and Colleges Ontario, a copy of the actual agreement can be found here.
For those of you who missed our GMM Demand Set meeting - here is an introduction to the process by JP Hornick, Chair of the ...
Correspondence CAAT Support Staff submission to Minister Deb Matthews (January 25 2017) Letter to Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development Deb Matthews (January 12 ...
The Morning After: The Election of Donald Trump By Whitney Hoth It’s been suggested to me that some of my colleagues would welcome a word ...
Deal Making at Ontario Colleges - M. Feltham Ontario colleges have in recent years engaged in a flurry of deal-making, including attempts to partner with ...
This is the most recent Contribution to Overhead (CTO) report for Fanshawe College obtained through a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act request. ...
The United Way 2016 campaign has now begun. United Way is the only charity with a formal working agreement with organized labour. To donate, these ...
MEDIA RELEASE SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 September 28 -- Contract Faculty Day of Action at Ontario Colleges September 28, 2016 is a Day of Action at ...
Support Your Part Time, Sessional and Partial Load Colleagues! Wednesday September 28 is the Contract Faculty Day of Action in Ontario. It's a day when ...
The McDonald's/Colleges Ontario Agreement: A News Analysis The purpose of this article (the first in a series) is to examine the McDonald’s/Ontario Colleges agreement in ...
From OPSEU.org Ontario’s colleges need reinvestment in order to preserve the quality of education and support the province’s economic and social success. That’s the view ...
Today in Ontario, more than 1.7 million workers are earning at or around minimum wage and many Ontarians are trapped working precarious part-time, temporary, contract ...
Hope you are enjoying your summer, whether you are in class or on vacation! Here are some summer updates from your Local: Summer Hours The ...
Whitney Hoth ~ A few months ago, when “the Donald” was still just a joke, a colleague defended Trump to me saying, “even a blind ...
In this last issue before the new term, we have a smaller, but important, selection of articles. The officers of 109 and 110 collectively report ...
2016 was my 9th OPSEU Convention as a delegate. It's hard to believe it has been that many. Where have all the years gone? And ...
Part-Time College Workers: Top Of Mind? by Darryl Bedford, March 11 2016 Recently on February 28, London North Centre MPP and Deputy Premier Deb Matthews ...
Whitney Hoth ~ Colleagues have sometimes joked with me about Donald Trump. Since I’m a refugee from Texas, I sometimes take heat from my Canadian ...
Contract faculty Day of Action press release Faculty at Western University and Fanshawe College support contract workers (London, Ont.)—Unionized faculty at Western University and Fanshawe ...
February 7, 2017 For readers interested in the craft of teaching, I invite you to check out Bill Gates' The Best Teacher I Never Had. Bill reminds ...
The Ontario government has been conducting pre-budget consultations. The following are the comments made by our good friend and colleague Lynn Dee Eason, President of OPSEU Local ...
Welcome to a new term and the new year. This issue contains a few new year’s resolutions of our own. Our opening editorial calls for ...
January 15, 2016 I attended today's update on Fanshawe College's plans for the former Kingsmill's building in downtown London. Fortunately, it appears the facilities group and ...
Read Jonathan Singer's letter to the Toronto Star regarding the situation faced by part-time college professors and that students need full-time professors. Jonathan Singer is the President of OPSEU Local ...
Should you be considering a donation to the Fanshawe College Foundation, I ask you to consider the option of directing money towards the Marita DeVries Memorial ...
We often receive questions at the Local 110 office that relate to possible bullying and psychological harassment in the workplace. Q: What is bullying/psychological harassment? This ...
Earlier this year, OPSEU sent a letter to Fanshawe College requesting information regarding the employment of support staff and faculty at the Canadian Centre for ...
I know someone who liked to apply technology to improve processes and had a very clever name for his houseboat: EEE-FISH-ANT-SEA. We are witnessing, and ...
At the OPSEU Editors' Weekend, Local 110's newsletter The Educator won an award for Best Feature Article. The winning piece was published in the March 2014 ...
Welcome back to another term. We're a little slow off the blocks this year, in part because we are now launching our new webpage (www.opseu110.ca), ...
Former Ontario Premier, Bob Rae, and education researchers Mary Catharine Lennon and Glen A. Jones presented a panel discussion on education trends in Ontario Colleges ...
We recently sent an email to members concerning Fanshawe College's purchase of Hot Zone: Dear Faculty, You may be aware from President Devlin's welcome breakfast ...
This is one of the largest issues we have ever published. There is something for everyone. Darryl Bedford provides hard news about the College’s decision ...
Newsletter Archive Electronic versions of past Educator editions are available for download in PDF format in our Newsletter Archive.
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