Major Campaigns
1983
Bill 179 Campaign (responding to implementation of the Inflation Restraint Act)
1984
Bovey Campaign – Ontario's Future: Ontario's Universities
1985
Election '85: Making Higher Education Count (broad-based media campaign)
1990
OCUFA Workshop on Lobbying and Media Relations: Election 1990
1994
Anti–Model C campaign
1999
Election ’99 (broad-based media campaign to increase funding for higher education, preceded by province-wide workshops on lobbying and media relations)
2000
Campaign to oppose privatization of Ontario universities – OCUFA Queen’s Park hearings
2003
Double Cohort campaign; Election 2003 campaign
2004–06
Campaign to eliminate mandatory retirement; campaign to extend Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) to universities
2007
Quality Matters; Election 2007 campaign accompanied by workshops on media relations and lobbying
2011
Election 2011 campaign using social media extensively and accompanied by workshop on media relations and lobbying
2013
We Teach Ontario campaign launch, highlighting the importance of teaching and research to university education and communities; anti-austerity campaign begins; OCUFA pension reform initiative begins
2014
Election 2014 campaign
2014-2021
Campaign to create a multi-employer jointly sponsored pension plan. A coalition of unions in the university sector, led by OCUFA, worked together to improve pension sustainability in this sector. The campaign was ultimately successful
2013–2016
We Teach Ontario campaign, which highlights both the important work of contract faculty and their precarious working conditions.
2015–present
Advocacy Day
2017-2018
Promotion of Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (and amendments), which addressed equal pay, unfair scheduling, and the fact that many contract faculty did not have access to benefits
2017-2018
Campaign for faculty renewal
2018
Election 2018 campaign
2018
Opposition to performance-based funding, a significant change to the funding model that ties 60% of postsecondary funding to outcomes or “performance” measures
2018–present
Campaign for better collegial governance
2019-2024
Opposition to Bill 124, the Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, which capped wages for public-sector workers. The law was declared unconstitutional in 2022
2021
OCUFA created a community coalition for Laurentian University called Save Our Sudbury (SOS) and created the Northern Solidarity website. The coalition brought together the Laurentian University Faculty Association, campus unions locals, small businesses, students, the Workers’ Action Centre, the local labour council, and the local business improvement area.
2022
Election 2022 campaign
2023
Fairness for Contract Faculty