College Faculty Part-time and Sessional Bargaining Update #8: Building power to take on precarity

June 2, 2026

Your College Faculty Part-Time and Sessional Bargaining Team met for the fourth day of negotiations with the College Employer Council (CEC) today. A bargaining summary follows below.

Make sure to join our Bargaining Town Hall tonight for a full update and open discussion:

Bargaining Town Hall #2 – Tues, June 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Register for Zoom link

Today, we tabled two additional proposals – U2, Recognition, which sets out the scope of our work, and U3, a proposal for a joint Employee/Employer Relations Committee.

At the table, the employer expressed concerns with the “pace” of bargaining. This very same employer repeatedly challenged unsealing the ballot boxes from our 2017 union certification vote, leaving us without the protection of a collective agreement for over eight years.

The employer has also yet to introduce a single proposal, turned down more than half of our offered dates between March and September, and tabled ground rules which we needed to contest to meet the mandate from our membership requiring open communication.

Now, they are rushing to push a bottom-shelf collective agreement – even as we are still engaging the voices of members currently working in the colleges, whose contact information the employer only just disclosed.

This is a familiar playbook. The employer wants control of the pace and process, but our working conditions are on the line.

We will fight for a strong first collective agreement, as it will lay the foundation for challenging precarity across the Ontario college system.

The CEC is afraid of the power we are building behind this challenge – because college workers, faculty and support staff alike, are coming together like never before.

We are still waiting on outstanding disclosure of information integral to understanding the landscape in order to bargain in good faith, including:

Payscales for various faculty classifications at a majority of colleges;
Workload data on asynchronous course delivery; and
College expenditures on emerging technologies impacting college operations and staffing.

Your bargaining team also requested administrator salary information as we believe this directly impacts colleges and their available funds for faculty, support staff, and the college programs which make up the core of our work.

Join our online Bargaining Town Hall tonight at 6:30 pm to learn more:

Our next day at the table is August 19, 2026. You can find all bargaining documents and proposals on our bargaining hub here.

In solidarity,

Your College Faculty Part-Time and Sessional Bargaining Team: 

Patricia Tuff, Humber Polytechnic, L562 (Chair)
Greg Dickson, Loyalist College, L420 (Vice-Chair & Secretary)
Kim Agostino, Confederation College, L732
Sarah Gayer, Seneca Polytechnic, L560
Mirna Iskandar, Conestoga/Sheridan College, L237/244
Natalia Komorowsky, Centennial College/Humber Polytechnic, L558/562
William Payne, George Brown/Humber Polytechnic, L556/562
Martin Lee, Algonquin College, L415 (Advisor)
Pearline Lung, Humber Polytechnic, L562 (Advisor)