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Day of Action: End Precarious Employment

By wlufaPosted on April 21, 2021Posted in Faculty News, Main Postings, OCUFATagged Brantford, Ontario

There is a big elephant in the room of postsecondary education, that negatively affects students, community, tenured faculty, and contract faculty. This is chronic underfunding. For contract faculty, it means hanging by a thread. For full time faculty, it means hitting a wall with workloads. For students, it means getting hosed by increased tuition costs. […]

Tweet and Facebook about contract faculty with the rest of Ontario on March 3rd

By wlufaPosted on March 1, 2017Posted in Events, Main Postings, OCUFATagged 15andFairness, Andrea Calver, Ben Lewis, Board of Governors, CdnPSE, contract faculty, contractfaculty, Facebook, fair employment, fairness, Fairness4CF, Laurier, Laurier administration, ocufa, Ontario, OurUniversity, Twitter, Wilfrid Laurier University

On March 3, OCUFA is asking faculty, students, staff, and supporters across Ontario to engage in a day of action on social media to raise awareness about the need for fairness for contract faculty. This initiative is a project of their Contract Faculty and Faculty Complement Committee, and will build on the momentum generated during […]

OCUFA’s recommendations for the Ontario budget

By wlufaPosted on January 23, 2017Posted in Main Postings, OCUFATagged budgets, Canada, CdnPSE, contract faculty, data, employment laws, faculty, fair employment, fairness, funding, information, Judy Bates, labour laws, laws, Mark Rosenfeld, Ministry of Finance, ocufa, OCUFA Executive Director, OCUFA President, ONpse, Ontario, pensions plans, performance, priorities, recommendations, reports, retired faculty, solvency, student-faculty ratio, tenure-stream faculty

[Copied from email sent by Mark Rosenfeld, Executive Director of OCUFA.] See OCUFA’s 2017 pre-budget submission, which sets out OCUFA’s priorities for the Ontario Budget. OCUFA’s recommendations include: Increasing per-student funding for Ontario’s universities to match the average for the rest of Canada; Making a commitment to supporting faculty renewal, including full-time faculty hiring that […]

KW MPP Catherine Fife supports fair and equitable work for Contract Faculty at Laurier

By wlufaPosted on December 22, 2016Posted in Main PostingsTagged Benefits, Catherine Fife, Compensation, contract faculty, CUPE, debt, fair employment, fairness, government, Job security, Kitchener, KW, letters, London, Members of Provincial Parliament, Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities, money, MPPs, Ontario, pay, Peggy Sattler, precariat, precarious employment, precarity, quotes, salary, students, support, teaching, Twitter, universities, wages, Waterloo

Given her support for the Ontario Craft Distillers on Twitter, WLUFA contacted MPP Catherine Fife regarding our own precariously-employed Contract Faculty. Her office had this to say: You are correct in identifying that thousands of students in Waterloo’s universities – as well as those across our province – are being taught by professors with no job […]

Read the “New report on sessional faculty in Ontario universities”

By wlufaPosted on October 14, 2016Posted in Faculty News, Main PostingsTagged CIHE, contract faculty, Ontario, part-time members, reports, universities

Released in July 2016, “A Survey of Sessional Faculty in Ontario Publicly-Funded Universities” by Field and Jones “…takes a step towards addressing the lack of evidence to guide debate on the quickly growing population of university instructors who work on short-term contracts.” Go to the August CIHE blog entry summarizing and linking to the report: https://ciheblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/new-report-on-sessional-faculty-in-ontario-universities/ […]