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27 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
this isn’t open & honest, it’s just more meritocratic mythmaking that sidesteps all the other structural prejudice & bottom-line thinking that pushes people out of these spaces before they even get started
maybe, MAYBE if you’re speaking in purely technical terms, it’s worth having a conversation about skill-level expectations, but it’s impossible to separate these from the economic & cultural conditions these industries are premised on
this thread basically comes down to “if i, a person who looks like the default dominant person in these spaces, deems your work lacking, this is an objective deficiency on your end which can only be made up for with more unpaid labor”
we deserve far, far better inroads to doing this work professionally than “get better, you’re just not good enough until capital/status quo gatekeepers say so”
yeah i know i’m raging at some random person but like, come on, try harder, be a little more thoughtful before you just repeat the same tired dad-speech

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28 Nov
apparently the CEC felt the need to blast college faculty with a weekend email full of the same chest-puffing truth-distortion that is rapidly becoming their exclusive brand

why are they so determined to bypass the bargaining table? why won't they negotiate in good faith?
the CEC is no longer maintaining even a pretense of negotiation. their only tactic at this point is to suggest that if CAAT-A is fully confident in their proposals, they should be willing to risk everything in a win-lose vote with the arbitrator
the real message here is that the CEC is so determined to have it *all their way*, they would rather face off in an all-or-nothing duel with CAAT-A than *do their jobs* and reach towards a compromise that college faculty & students deserve
Read 11 tweets
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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
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
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
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