http://www.local244.ca/ 2026-04-19T13:27:39+00:00 http://www.local244.ca/ http://www.local244.ca/_media/logo.png text/html 2022-01-17T17:16:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0104?rev=1642439813&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #4: Town Hall Meeting, Jan 5, 2022 06:30 PM Welcome Back Colleagues, Back to virtual student contact, mostly, back to the pandemic’s new variant and governmental reactions. Welcome back to no contract and to work-to rule (W2R). We have become resilient; we have shouldered as much or more last year and the year before. Our united strength and determination, as I read and hear it in your correspondence to the union, and saw it in our last Sheridan vote, is heartening. We sur… text/html 2022-01-17T17:14:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0104b?rev=1642439699&do=diff bar2022 The CEC's Latest Bargaining Update Greetings Colleagues, You may have read the College Employer Council's (CEC) last Bargaining Update sent through Information Sheridan this afternoon. It implies that the mandatory Standard Workload Forms are not the full measure of our workload. They implicitly argue that there is no measurement to apply, text/html 2022-01-17T16:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0106?rev=1642437528&do=diff bar2022 How To Respond To Management's Refusal To Honour W2R Good Morning Colleagues, One questions from two of our constituencies is being asked more than any other, based on a standard college reply to faculty members’ notice of exercising work-to-rule in not attending meetings this week. Here is an example of the college’s reply, text/html 2022-01-17T17:16:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0110?rev=1642439764&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #5: OPSEU President Speaks Up For Our Labour Action Rights Good Morning Colleagues, It’s January 10, all our SWFs and Workload Memos and Partial-Load Contracts are in play. If you haven’t started, it’s time to keep a log of the times and coinciding work you do, so as not to exceed the limits of the current working-to-rule (W2R) labour action. text/html 2022-01-17T16:27:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0117?rev=1642436831&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #6: Forced Offer Vote, 44 or 40 Hour Week? ULP Filed, Student Awareness Greetings Colleagues, In this Update: CEC Forced Offer? Will the CEC By-Pass Our Bargaining Team Again Can One Fit 44 Hours In A 40 Hour Week? OPSEU Files Unfair Labour Practice (ULP) Complaint to the OLRB (attached) text/html 2022-01-24T15:41:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0119?rev=1643038872&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #7: Response to Forced Offer Greetings Colleagues, The forced offer materialized within a few hours of my Monday morning prediction. I was wrong in one part of my prediction, they did not offer a signing bonus. It’s a take it or leave it deal. We already rejected their final offer with our 69.9% strike mandate vote, which made our current work-to-rule strategy legal. text/html 2022-01-24T15:50:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0121?rev=1643039426&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #8: The Forced Offer Vote February 15-17 Greetings Colleagues, In the next couple weeks, before the forced offer vote, please take some time to look into the background of this upcoming vote. You will find details in * my emails * BT's letters I will forward, like the one below text/html 2022-01-24T16:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0124?rev=1643040486&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #9: 5 Reasons to Vote No -- 22 Days to Forced Offer Vote Good Morning Colleagues, Here are five good reasons to vote “NO” on the College Employer Council’s (CEC) Forced Offer Vote coming up On February 15 to 17. 1) Our workload formula, covering full-time faculty only, has gone largely unchanged since 1985. text/html 2022-01-31T20:05:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0127?rev=1643659541&do=diff bar2022 W2R Phase 2 Reminder Greetings Colleagues, A number of questions have come in about work that is considered struck work. Please note we are now in Phase 2 of Work-to-Rule (see link below). During this phase of W2R, we are not to exceed an eight-hour day from start time of SWF duties for eight hours. Also, do not attend any meetings not presented directly on your SWF, like PAC or professional organization meetings. text/html 2022-01-31T20:24:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0131?rev=1643660668&do=diff bar2022 Notice - Sheridan General Membership Meeting - Student W2R Provincial Meeting Good Morning Colleagues, Next Monday evening, February 7 at 6:30 p.m., JP Hornick, the chair of our Bargaining Team, will be joining us for our General Membership Budget Meeting. The Agenda will be: text/html 2022-02-15T20:58:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0201?rev=1644958708&do=diff bar2022 Update #10: Meet the Bargaining Team Chair, The CEC's Empty Promise We received a College Employer Council’s political message today about setting up a ‘workload task force’, if you’ll only vote yes on their offer. Well here’s a little history of previous task forces: text/html 2022-02-15T21:00:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0202?rev=1644958807&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #11: More CEC Newspeak, Robocalls, Town Hall Tonight The Latest CEC Newspeak Gotta love those College Employer Council’s (CEC) daily propaganda mail outs. In today’s bullet points they mention enhancements (from our demand list) for what they call “priority status”. The list ends with the claim that our side’s (same) demands would allow, “longer serving partial-load faculty to bump other partial-load faculty out of teaching assignments”. Well, what will their “priority stat… text/html 2022-02-15T21:01:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0203?rev=1644958917&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #12: CEC’s Truth Wiggling, Sheridan Union GMM Monday, February 7, 6:30 PM Did you see the latest from Wigglesworth of the College Employer’s Council (CEC)? Lotta wiggling of the truth going on there. But the worst half-truth (conniving lie) is that our side wants Truth and Reconciliation with the Indigenous peoples of Canada done through arbitration. text/html 2022-02-15T21:07:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0204?rev=1644959247&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #13: The Arsonist & the Firefighter, Town Hall Review And now from the chair of the College Employer Council (CEC), “the focus of our bargaining team has been on tabling an agreement that provides you with certainty in uncertain times.” text/html 2022-02-15T21:19:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0207?rev=1644959956&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #14: Zoom GMM Tonight 6:30, Guest, Bargaining Team Chair JP Hornick First, a quick note on today’s College Employer Council’s (CEC) Update. They have run out of things to say and so have repeated last week’s canard that in matters of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) they want consensus and we want arbitration. In the Fall they left the good faith of the bargaining table, then on December 13 they imposed a new CA, now, over the heads of our bargaining team, they have imp… text/html 2022-02-15T21:22:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0209?rev=1644960130&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #16: Bill 124, The Verdict Is In, The CEC’s Biggest Confabulation The CEC has continually claimed that they have only a 1% increase in college budgets to work with. Not just on our wages and benefits, but also on educational concerns. Running through all their propaganda, they claim their hands are tied on matters of workload and precarious work. It’s all been a crock of misinformation; please see my email with the subject line: text/html 2022-02-15T21:32:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0210?rev=1644960777&do=diff bar2022 W2R Update #17: Today's CEC Email Feb 10: A Victim-Perpetrator Role Reversal The College Employer Council continues their daily mail outs. No doubt the writer they hired is making a good buck. It is crafty the way the writer of their letters tries to spin their agenda as our truth, but it isn’t fooling anyone. Their daily onslaught is actually looking like last-minute wild gestures of desperation. text/html 2024-10-21T17:21:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/0408?rev=1729531261&do=diff OPSEU/SEFPO welcomes new leadership: JP Hornick and Laurie Nancekivell OPSEU/SEFPO President, JP Hornick and OPSEU/SEFPO First Vice-President/Treasurer, Laurie Nancekivell JP Hornick has been elected as the new President of OPSEU/SEFPO marking the first change in the union’s presidency in 15 years. text/html 2022-02-15T21:16:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/9999w2r?rev=1644959773&do=diff bar2022 Job Actions 2022 A one stop guide to job action. You can always find the latest from the Bargaining Team on the current work to rule campaign here. Work-to-rule: Principles and Protocols The bargaining team has created an overview document of the principles guiding faculty's work-to-rule labour action (see attached). You can also check out detailed lists of struck work activities for Phase One and Phase Two text/html 2022-02-15T21:35:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/99999?rev=1644960916&do=diff Five Good Reasons to vote "NO" Here are five good reasons to vote “NO” on the College Employer Council’s (CEC) Forced Offer Vote coming up On February 15 to 17. 1) Our workload formula, covering full-time faculty only, has gone largely unchanged since 1985. text/html 2022-02-15T21:14:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/jobaction?rev=1644959697&do=diff Job Actions 2022 A one stop guide to job action. You can always find the latest from the Bargaining Team on the current work to rule campaign here. Work-to-rule: Principles and Protocols The bargaining team has created an overview document of the principles guiding faculty's work-to-rule labour action (see attached). You can also check out detailed lists of struck work activities for Phase One and Phase Two text/html 2024-10-21T19:04:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/start?rev=1729537475&do=diff OPSEU/SEFPO welcomes new leadership: JP Hornick and Laurie Nancekivell OPSEU/SEFPO President, JP Hornick and OPSEU/SEFPO First Vice-President/Treasurer, Laurie Nancekivell JP Hornick has been elected as the new President of OPSEU/SEFPO marking the first change in the union’s presidency in 15 years. text/html 2022-03-09T17:10:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.local244.ca/2022/students?rev=1646845803&do=diff Resources to Inform and Support Students During Work-to-Rule Support the only option that puts students first Help us send a message to College Presidents and Boards of Governors Chairs. As college leaders, their primary responsibility is to put students first and build community. Right now, that means supporting the only option that puts students first and allows faculty to focus on student success. They need to direct the College Employer Council to return to the table and bargain faculty’s…