If you missed the Newsbreak: you can now find it here.

If you are a part-time staff or faculty at Humber you have an opportunity for joining the collective bargaining unit. We are in the process of getting to you and getting your union cards filled out. You can start the process online at the CAAT/OPSEU Web site. If you have questions please visit us in H 109 (just down from the book store's used book cashier).

International Labour Organization finds in favour of Part-time college staff.

- The International Labour Organization issued a ruling calling on the Ontario government to legislate the right for part-time and sessional support staff and faculty at the colleges to join a union.
- At a weekend-long meeting on Nov. 17 - 19, the Organization of Part-time and Sessional Employees of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (OPSECAAT) was launched

From the Globe and Mail:

"Ontario faces criticism over position on unions"
A United Nations agency is criticizing the Ontario government for denying part-time college workers the right to unionize.The International Labour Organization is blasting Premier Dalton McGuinty for denying most of the province's 16,000 part-time college employees the right to engage in collective bargaining.

Go here (www.collegeworkers.org) for OPSEU's coverage of this issue.

SWF and Salary Step Calculators are now available.

We now have Excel spreadsheet calculators that you can use to check your SWF and salary step on your own. You can download and use these tools here. As we have other material available check back on our SWF and Benefits page at the upper left.

The Collective Agreement is available.

If you wish an electronic version of the collective agreement it is available: in English (PDF 500 kb) or French (PDF 620 kb).

The Kaplan Award announced.

Here are the announcements for the Kaplan award: the award document (PDF 96kb) and the agreed upon terms (PDF 320 kb). Makes for interesting reading. Retroactive pay will go back to September 2005: for all bargaining unit members employeed since then.

Important

If you are claiming overtime in your semester completion efforts you will have to fill out this form (Word file 101kb).

 

John Stammers, 1944-2006.

Latest News: March 28, 2006

Funeral arrangements for John Stammers

A service to celebrate the life of John Stammers will be held March 29, 2006. Brother Stammers, who died Saturday after being struck by a car while on picket duty March 20, was a professor in the School of Business at Centennial College and a member of OPSEU Local 558. He was 62.

Friends may call at the Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. W., Toronto, at Windermere (east of the Jane subway) on Tuesday from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Funeral service will be held in the chapel on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Remembrances may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

March 26, 2006

In Memoriam
 
Professor John Stammers

With deep sadness we announce that Centennial Professor John Stammers died in hospital on Saturday morning. John was a respected colleague and friend to many at Centennial and also at Humber, where he taught night courses for several years.
  
We send our thoughts and condolences to John Stammers' family at this difficult time.
  
Centennial Local 558 will be planning something shortly to recognize John's life and contribution.

March 25, 2006

We have the memorandum of agreement and return to work protocol here (PDF file 28kb).