Strike averted
No interruptions coming to Winter 2025 semester with faculty strike avoided.
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Ontario faculty to begin picketing if no resolution reached before Friday
In a Twitter update released by the bargaining team on Monday morning, the college faculty team – which represents faculty at 24 Ontario colleges including George Brown – announced that they will be setting a strike deadline to push the CEC to either continue with negotiations or enter binding interest arbitration. If neither option is…
Work-to-rule to continue as college faculty rejects CEC’s forced offer vote
From February 15-17, OPSEU-O members participated in a referendum following the college employer’s initiation of a ‘Forced Offer Vote‘ (FOV). Of the faculty members who voted, 62 per cent were opposed to the CEC’s offer. The FOV can only be used once, and is therefore considered to be their ‘final’ offer. The request contains virtually…
Reviewing a year of faculty labour negotiations between the CEC and CAAT-A
In February of last year, we witnessed the very first sparks of what would become a tense, hostile and ultimately unsuccessful bargaining round. The College Employer Council (CEC) proposed an offer to extend their collective agreement with the provincial college union OPSEU-O despite faculty concerns over the need to review and update its terms. The…
OPSEU files unfair labour practice complaint alleging intimidation from the CEC
This past Saturday, OPSEU filed an unfair labour practice (ULP) complaint against college administrators. The complaint was filed following a letter issued to the bargaining team on January 13, the content of which union members qualify as having “blatantly interfered with the rights of OPSEU’s members to choose to demonstrate support for their bargaining agent’s…
CEC files for conciliation and unlawful labour practice complaint against faculty negotiators, escalating tensions
Illustration by Katie Doyle After months of negotiations have failed to reach an agreement, the bargaining agent of Ontario’s publicly funded colleges has filed for conciliation and filed a complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board, accusing them of “not bargaining in good faith.” The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology – Academic (CAAT-A), the…
Strike timeline: in its fourth week how did we get here?
With talks broken down again between the College Employer Council (CEC) and the Ontario Public Employees Union (OPSEU) teams, we look at the milestones before and since the strike