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OPSEU's reply ..... read all about it
OPSEU Executive Board Election Results
March 12, 2011
Members of the new OPSEU Executive Board, the three provincial equity committees members and their alternates were elected at regional meetings held in our seven regions across the province. The new 21-member Executive Board will be sworn into office on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at the close of the annual OPSEU Convention in Toronto. They will serve a two-year term ending April, 2013. Get the list.....
You Should Live So Long
We're all living longer - the economy has faltered a bit - and so our pension plan will have to be topped up. What follows is a summary and a link to the CAAT Pension Plan Website.
March 10, 2011
Rate increases will be phased in over 3 years as follows:
January 1, 2012 - +0.8% -- January 1, 2013 - +0.4% -- January 1, 2014 - +0.4%
Also being introduced in 2012 is a change to the way contributions are calculated. Members will contribute at a lower rate on the first $3,500 of their earnings in a year. Read more....
Need Your 'Hybrid' Experience
Email Sent To Faculty, Thursday March 3, 2011
(Sorry about the flat technical writing, but sometimes words must be transparent)
Dear Faculty,
We are entering into discussion with NILES about the difference in teaching loads from classroom to online teaching. We are focusing on the new Hybrid Course initiative that will see a proposed 150 Hybrid Courses running by the end of the next Academic Year. However, any online experience that you have had would be an asset to our research. See the questionnaire.....
HYBRID COURSES: THE NEW PEDAGOGY OR AN ECONOMIC EXPEDIENT?
by Jack Urowitz
Two local directives have hit us this semester:
- the pedagogical drive to convert 3 hour classroom courses into 2-hour-classroom plus 1-hour-online hybrid courses, and,
- the spatial directive to split 3-hour-class timeblocks into 2-hour-plus-1-hour time blocks.
At first glance these two initiatives seem to be inter-related.....continue reading......
THE PROPOSED PROVINCIAL WAGE FREEZE: SEEMS TO HAVE THAWED
Since the McGuinty government requested a Wage Freeze from provincial workers, they have not been very resolute in implementing this austerity plan. The University of Western Ontario and McMaster University staff unions, the Ontario nurses and firefighters have all received at least cost of living increases in negotiating their new contracts. We'll see how this plays out closer to home in that our sister union of Sheridan staff, Local 245, will be negotiating their new contract for this August, a year before ours. See more on this....
New Links for Wage Freeze:
CREATE A PART-TIMERS' UNION: WILL THEY EVER COUNT THE BALLOTS?
You might remember that part-timers voted on whether to form a union and the ballots were never counted. Why? A criterion for counting the ballots was that 35% of part-timers vote. Management, in its sagacity, included anyone who taught for any length of time in the preceding year. So that, if a fire-fighter came in to give a three hour talk one day, he or she was considered a part-time teacher. The union has raised this issue with the Ontario Labour Board; it is still in deliberations.
2006 STRIKE: RETURN TO WORK ARBITRATION
(taken from OPSEU/CAAT website)
Regarding all grievances (29 at Sheridan) related to work performed after the 2006 strike, so far the Labour Board has ruled against preliminary objections against individual grievors. The next, very overdue, step is that the Board must determine compensation due to the grievors.
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Local 245
On Strike - Read More....