
College Support Part-Time
Following the largest union organizing drive in Canadian history, in 2018 roughly 20,000 college part-time support staff became members of OPSEU/SEFPO. They perform a wide variety of functions that support students and staff of Ontario’s public colleges network.
Bargaining
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CAAT-S Part-Time Bargaining Team
Contact the team at [email protected]
Noor Askandar
The Team, Chair
Sara McArthur Timofejew
The Team, Vice-Chair
Doreen Follett
The Team, Member
Torsten Hamelin
The Team, Member
Aliza Kassam
The Team, Member
Paula Naylor
The Team, Member
Natalie Williams
The Team, Member
Contact the divisional executive at [email protected]
Sara McArthur Timofejew
College Support Part-Time Divisional Executive, Chair
Employee/Employer Relations Committee Member
Doreen Follett, Vice-Chair
College Support Part-Time Divisional Executive, Vice-Chair
Noor Askandar
College Support Part-Time Divisional Executive, Member
Toni Pettit
College Support Part-Time Divisional Executive, Member
Yaroslava Tverdokhlib
College Support Part-Time Divisional Executive, Member
News and bargaining updates
- February 7, 2025
OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick was in Thunder Bay last weekend for the Region 7 Leadership Conference, just a few days after the snap provincial election was called. Reporters from TBnewswatch.com and Global TV’s TBT Newshour caught up with Hornick and several other OPSEU/SEFPO leaders at Confederation College, where they were meeting with OPSEU/SEFPO’s College Part-Time...
- January 30, 2025
Toronto, ON – OPSEU/SEFPO, the union representing over 45,000 college faculty and support staff at Ontario’s 24 public colleges, is taking aim at the Ford government following more sweeping program and staffing cuts. The union says that an emergency infusion of $1.4 billion – the government’s own 2024-2025 revenue loss projections for the sector –...
- January 29, 2025
Bargaining Bulletin #8: On Thursday, January 23rd, the College Employer Council (CEC) filed for conciliation, a process either side can initiate through the Ministry of Labour to appoint a third-party conciliation officer to try and help the parties reach a settlement. Once a conciliator is appointed, the parties will book conciliation dates together – which...
- January 10, 2025
As we enter 2025, we’re gearing up in our fight to set the course for part-timer futures at Ontario’s 24 public colleges. This fight matters: for you, for your colleagues, for your family, and for generations of workers after us. A better college system cannot be built on precarity: we need to be able to...
- December 20, 2024
Bargaining Bulletin #7: Hoping for a contract before the holidays, your College Support Part-Time Bargaining Team was back at the table on December 18th. To our surprise, rather than taking steps forward to end the year with some measure of stability for workers, the College Employer Council (CEC) took a giant leap backwards. At a...
- September 18, 2024
Bargaining Bulletin #6: On September 11, 2024, your College Support Staff Part-Time Bargaining Team was back at the table with the Employer. Five months after presenting our original monetary proposal, we finally received a written response from the employer’s team. While we are happy to see movement at the table – an indication of the...
- July 30, 2024
Bargaining Bulletin #5: Your Part-Time College Support Staff Bargaining Team was back at the bargaining table with the College Employer Council (CEC) this past week, between July 17-19. Through the course of these latest discussions, the employer has continued to show a considerable lack of understanding of our workload and undervaluing of our labour –...
- June 26, 2024
OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick and the Presidents of OPSEU/SEFPO Locals 352 & 351, Liz Mathewson and Marcia Steeves, sent the following letter yesterday to Fleming College President, Maureen Adamson, and Fleming Board of Governors Chair, Don Gillespie, expressing deep concerns with procedural transparency surrounding the unprecedented suspension of 29 programs at Fleming College in April....