July bargaining is in the books!

Bargaining in July is complete. A visual summary outlines what happened at the table:

A downloadable visual bargaining summary is available on our website, here.

To date, the CEC has not provided any counter proposals. The employer did, however, table non-monetary proposals of their own. Unsurprisingly, the employer’s proposals contain several concessions, including some that would result in increasing precarity for partial-load faculty members and rolling back some of their hard-fought gains of the past two rounds.

Our responses highlighting those concessions have been presented back to the employer. We bargain forwards, not backwards – and that means accepting no concessions. We will not erode our bargaining rights. You can find all proposals and responses here.

This fight is about the work we do, day in and day out, preparing students for careers that meet the needs of our communities. Whether it’s in health care, trades, social services, business, hospitality and tourism, culinary, forestry, or aviation (to name a few), and whether it occurs in the classroom, in the library, or in experiential spaces, we play an important role in the futures of our communities, our province, and its economy. We are Training Ontario’s Future.

This training encompasses classroom teaching, and the irreplaceable work of counsellors and librarians, to support and educate our students. As the workers tasked with this responsibility, it is critical that College Faculty are equipped with the necessary resources to complete our work – which has been eroded over decades of neglect by management.

Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions. If our members are struggling with workload or to keep pace with the rising cost of living, the Colleges are failing to deliver on their core mandate: not to drive profit, but to provide comprehensive stable education and training environments. The Colleges work because we do – as we have now reminded the CEC at the bargaining table with our members’ proposals.

All bargaining documents are now posted on collegefaculty.org. You can see our demands reflected in the proposed language – from local demand set to final demand set, to proposals at the bargaining table.

Stay Informed, Stay Engaged, Get Involved