KINGSTON – According to a recent poll commissioned by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), 65 per cent of those who live in Eastern Ontario want professors with job security and benefits teaching university courses. Among Ontario youth considering a postsecondary education, support was even higher, with 71 per cent stating this as […]
SUDBURY – According to a recent poll commissioned by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), 68 per cent of Northern Ontarians want professors with job security and benefits teaching university courses. Among Ontario youth considering a postsecondary education, support was even higher, with 71 per cent stating this as their preference. “This poll […]
Dear Alastair Summerlee, On behalf of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) and the 17,000 full-time and contract university professors and academic librarians we represent at 28 member associations across the province of Ontario, I am writing to urge you to return to the bargaining table with the Canadian Union of Public Employees […]
OCUFA’s Contract Faculty and Faculty Complement Committee has been busy since December. Members have been identifying ways to mobilize their members in the lead-up to June’s provincial election. With the momentum generated by Bill 148, there has never been a better time to fight for fairness for contract faculty and keep postsecondary issues on the […]
The Social Media Day of Action included the release of a new CAUT video featuring stories demonstrating why fairness is important for contract academic staff. Watch the video here. This article originally appeared in OCUFA Report. To receive stories like this every week, please subscribe .
This year’s Social Media Day of Action in support of fairness for contract faculty and other precariously employed campus workers was a huge success! On Wednesday, February 28th, OCUFA and allies from across Canada tweeted and shared posts on Facebook raising awareness about precarious work on our campuses and asked Ontario MPP’s how they plan […]
On March 23 and 24, the Fight for $15 & Fairness Provincial Strategy Meeting will be held in Toronto. This event will bring together over two hundred supporters of the $15 & Fairness campaign from across the province to assess the campaign’s work to-date and collectively determine next steps. This year, the agenda will include […]
OCUFA is deeply concerned by the York University administration’s attempts to challenge faculty member decisions to reschedule their classes and ensure the academic integrity of their courses. The university administration should focus their energies on negotiating a fair collective agreement with CUPE 3903 that ends the strike. Dear Rhonda Lenton, On behalf of the Ontario […]
On Saturday, February 10th, after a 17-hour marathon of mediation, the University of St. Michael’s College administration and University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA), which bargains on behalf of faculty and librarians at the college, agreed to a new collective agreement. This success was clearly attributable to the resolve of the membership, and the support […]
The Council of Universities (COU) recently released the latest report from its Faculty at Work project. The Composition and Activities of Ontario Universities’ Academic Workforce updates and extends the Preliminary Report released in 2014 to include a focus on the composition of the academic workforce. It constitutes the first serious effort to use administrative data to produce a picture of the numbers of contract faculty employed […]
OCUFA is proud to celebrate outstanding achievement in teaching and academic librarianship at Ontario universities. Anyone within the university community can nominate a faculty member or librarian. Award recipients are selected by an independent OCUFA committee made up of faculty, librarians, and student representatives. The deadline for nominations for the 2017-2018 awards is May 25, […]
On February 8, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a report about precarious work in Ontario’s postsecondary education sector . The main finding is that more than half of workers in the sector show signs of job precarity. The report draws on Labour Force Survey data, and supplements it with qualitative data about the impacts of precarious work. The scope is broad, including […]
On Saturday, February 3 and Sunday, February 4, OCUFA held its second Board of Directors meeting of the 2017-18 academic year. Over the weekend, board members discussed the organization’s current priorities – good jobs and vibrant universities, university funding, and capacity building – with a focus on the postsecondary issues that will be receiving the […]
On February 28, faculty, staff, and students from across Ontario will participate in OCUFA’s annual social media day of action in support of fairness for contract faculty and other precariously employed campus workers. In the lead-up to the provincial election in June, it will be an exciting opportunity to build upon the momentum generated by […]
Government commitment to robust public funding for postsecondary education is essential to support high-quality accessible education for Ontario students, continued strength in research, and fairness for contract faculty. With this in mind, OCUFA’s recommendations for the 2018 Ontario Budget seek to preserve the quality of university education in Ontario through increased public investment and government leadership on key issues impacting faculty working […]
