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Ontario Colleges Put Employer Offer to a Vote

Colleges Urge OPSEU to Put Students First and Remain on the Job until Vote Results Released

Correcting CAAT-A Misinformation: Response to Warren (Smokey) Thomas

Last week, CEC received a letter from Smokey Thomas, President of OPSEU regarding the ongoing labour dispute with academic employees. We would like to correct a number of misperceptions and misinformation. Our below response to Smokey includes CEC’s formal response addressing the following matters: College communications, Work-to-rule and the SWF, the reality of introducing terms and conditions, bargaining and next steps.

Your Right to Choose Regarding Work-to-Rule

As we move into the new year and the new term, we recognize the right of CAAT-A to call for labour action. We also want to underscore the rights of employees to participate in that action or to choose not to do so.

Management Bargaining Update December 17

As the fall semester comes to a close, we acknowledge how difficult it has been.

OPSEU CAAT-A Strike Vote: 59.4% of Ballots Cast Support College Strike

Today, the CEC initiated the introduction of the following terms and conditions of its proposal to improve working conditions for individual employees.