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25 Nov, 10 tweets, 2 min read
hey hi folks who followed me for OPSEU/CAAT-A stuff; thanks! i also tweet about other things you may/may not find interesting;

to preserve a bit of order, here's a thread of union/bargaining-related threads; i'll keep adding to it until faculty win a better collective agreement

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25 Nov
college faculty, friends, allies: looks like another email just came down the chain from the CEC

the big reveal is: it's just more aggression

to be honest, this one confused me for a minute. luckily, there are some kind folks helping to keep me sorted! thanks for that!

anyhow,
what threw me off is that the CEC appears to finally be offering something the union has been calling for since last week: voluntary binding arbitration

this is a process where a arbitrator agreed upon by both parties is called in to help assemble the new collective agreement
arbitration can be useful when normal bargaining has reached an impasse but the parties involved want to avoid escalating the confrontation

the "binding" part means that the CEC and CAAT-A agree to accept abitrator's decisions
Read 13 tweets
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25 Nov
it *could* have been a quiet morning, but the CEC decided to bombard college faculty with another blast of management propaganda

the CEC is desperate to convince you that their proposals are "reasonable" & "neutral" where CAAT-A's are unlawful & arbitrary

but it's just not true
the CEC is fixated on Bill 124, which they claim the union's proposal's "violate"

but Bill 124 is a simply a provincial cap on salary increases & public spending, which CAAT-A has already publicly accepted the (politically dubious, but that's another story) limits of
in fact, the only adjustments to compensation put forward by the union are small increases in prep & evaluation time as a direct response to the massive educational shifts created by the pandemic

is the CEC arguing that *any* increase in labor after 2019 should go unpaid?
Read 17 tweets
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25 Nov
i want to return to two of the most important sites of tension in CAAT-A's struggle to bring the CEC back to the bargaining table:

part-time faculty & intellectual property

believe it or not, these issues are much more related than they might seem at first
i've already tried to speak a bit to the CEC's long term agenda for the ontario college system -- an aggressive shift towards privatization, "micro-credentials" (basically corporate certificates), and deep devaluing of faculty labor & student education
the CEC has its own euphemisms for these changes, centered on words like "student choice", "real-world skills", and "efficient program delivery"

these are typical marketing pitches - they might sound fair or even necessary in a brochure, but the details are intentionally vague
Read 28 tweets
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24 Nov
normalizing mass death is not the same thing as ending mass death
so many of the people arguing "we just have to live with covid now" are either hugely structurally insulated from it or unable to avoid it *because* of people who are hugely insulated from it

the (racist, classist, ableist) persistence of the pandemic is not inevitable
more & more, the government's "solutions" are about downloading responsibility - for being vaccinated, for verifying vaccinations, for surviving/"recovering" physically & emotionally & economically - onto individuals
Read 4 tweets
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23 Nov
college faculty bargaining update!

today, the CEO of the College Employer Council (which represents management/the province) sent an "open letter" to OPSEU/CAAT-A (the faculty union)

it's as bad as you expect. read on if you want to get your blood boiling this chilly afternoon:
here's the letter. i'm reluctant to drag it into the light of day, but for transparency's sake you're welcome to suffer through it yourself:

collegeemployercouncil.ca/en/news/letter…

i'm going to focus on two things: 1) why it's pure management propaganda, & 2) how to turn it against the CEC
to quickly summarize, the letter is nominally addressed to JP Hornick, the chair of the bargaining committee, & Smokey Thomas, the president of OPSEU (who, strangely, has spent much of the last few months either criticizing the CAAT-A bargaining unit or defending Doug Ford)
Read 28 tweets
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22 Nov
i know a lot of ppl (myself included) who've gone through an ontario college video game/narrative design/digital arts program

whether you're a current or former student, if you missed my thread this weekend, please know that college faculty need your support *right now*
for the sake of not repeating myself (much as i love to), here's the original thread:

a lot of people in the video game industry are just catching up to the idea *of* labor unions and how essential they are to worker safety & solidarity

but existing unions are also under constant threat from management & governments that put profits over people
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