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April 3, 2009  Colleges continue to block vote count at Labour Board more...

February 19, 2009 Colleges veto vote count. more...

February 6, 2009 The votes are in the box. Getting them counted is the next challenge.  more...

January 30, 2009 Part-time faculty turnout tops 2,400 with Toronto colleges still to vote  more...

January 23, 2009 Inspired voters make Week 1 a success more...

Jan. 20, 2009 Vote turnout 'fabulous': Part-time and sessional faculty swamp polls to VOTE YES   more...

Jan. 16, 2009: Part-time faculty vote starts Monday more...

January 8, 2009 Labour Board orders vote for part-time and sessional faculty Three-week voting period starts Jan. 19 more...

December 3, 2008 OPSEU asks Labour Board to order union vote for part-time and sessional faculty more...

November 19, 2008 Organizers sign up more members as OPSEU gets set to file new applications more...

October 10, 2008 ‘Momentous victory’ for part-timers as colleges act gets Royal Assent more...

October 3, 2008 Bill 90 passes Third Reading more...

September 18, 2008 Liberals stand pat on Bill 90 more...

September 12, 2008 Decision time for Liberals more...

August 26, 2008 Feedback from a month-long lobby campaign by OPSEU suggests the McGuinty government may be open to fixing at least some of the flaws in Bill 90. more..

June 17, 2008  Stronger than ever. Part-timers and sessionals still united and resolved to win collective bargaining rights as soon as possible more...

View photos from the June 14 Annual General Meeting

June 12, 2008 Part-timers and sessionals win hard-fought victory at Queen’s Park  more...

 

May 20, 2008 Call for delegates: OPSECAAT sets June 14 date for 'historic' meeting  more...

 

April 30, 2008 Part-timers’ lobby day wows Queen’s Park  more...

Click here to view photos of the April 29 Lobby Day

 

April 23, 2008 Legislation on its way this spring, Minister hints more...

 

April 18, 2008 NO VOTE OPSEU slams McGuinty betrayal as Labour Relations Board declines to order a certification vote for college part-timers and sessionals more...

 

April 14, 2008 OPSEU applies to Labour Board for right to represent part-timers and sessionals more...

 

April 8, 2008 Sprint to the finish! Organizers race to sign up more part-timers as college card-signing drive enters crucial week  more...

 

April 1, 2008 OPSEU to colleges: “Let’s vote” more...

March 20, 2008 Organizing drive in media spotlight as bus visits Sudbury more...

Mar 14, 2008 OPSEU bus rolls on to the Soo. The union has asked the colleges for voluntary recognition as part-time workers are signing cards all over the province. more...

Mar 3, 2008 OPSEU contingent meets Minister Milloy  more...

Feb. 25, 2008 Organizing drive flows through St. Lawrence more...

Feb. 15, 2008 OPSEU campaign takes London by storm, Full-time support staff put union rights for part-timers on the bargaining table If it’s Tuesday, it must be Georgian…, more...

Feb. 7, 2008 Whitaker calls for immediate union rights for part-timers and sessionals more...

Jan. 31, 2008 Durham College backs OPSEU organizing drive more...

Jan. 25, 2008: OPSEU challenges Algonquin College over freedom of speech more...

Jan. 22, 2008 Stop employer interference in union drive, OPSEU president tells colleges minister  more...

Jan. 14, 2008 Banned! St. Lawrence College tries to clamp down on The Part-Time Times more...

Jan. 7, 2008: "2008 will be breakthrough year for college workers: OPSEU president" more...

December 7, 2007  Card-signing drive is 'best thing possible' for colleges: Couvrette more..

November 14, 2007  Union crafts position on changes to college bargaining law more...

October 19, 2007  It’s time! OPSEU launches union drive for part-time and sessional college workers  More…

View photos from the Hamilton launch

September 7, 2007 OPSECAAT and OPSEU celebrated a major victory. More…

August 8, 2007  Quality college education conference; van on the road for fairness more...

June 18, 2007  Supreme Court says “Yes we can!”  more...

May 22, 2007  Part-time workers take centre stage!  more...

April 23, 2007 The Bulletin Issue 11: Why join OPSECAAT? First, we’re fighters! more...

April 16, 2007 The Bulletin Issue 10: College workers across Canada have rights  - why not us? more...

April 5, 2007 The Bulletin:

Issue 9A - Part-time faculty just can’t give any more more...
Issue 9B – Support staff make a difference for students more...

March 30, 2007 The Bulletin: Issue 8 Why the campaign matters to students more...

March 23, 2007 The Bulletin: Issue 7 College Underfunding: On the backs of part-time workers more...

March 16, 2007 The Bulletin: Issue 6 Changing an unfair law more...

March 9, 2007 The Bulletin: Issue 5 Disposable staff? Or quality education? more...

March 2, 2007 The Bulletin Issue 4 Part-timers have nothing to fear more...

February 23, 2007 The Bulletin Issue 3 Part-time education workers would have more rights and benefits if they worked for a coffee chain. more...

February 16, 2007 The Bulletin Issue 2; Service Matters, Respect our Seniority more...

February 9, 2007 The Bulletin Issue 1:  We need an association – why?  more...

January 18, 2007 Card-signing drive under way; lobby day Jan. 30; Toronto storefront opening, and more! more...

December 11, 2006 Part-time Times December 2006: Part-time workers form an association more...

 

October 5, 2006 Part-time Times October 2006: Part-timers meet Nov. 17-19 to launch provincial association more...


August 1, 2006 Part-time Times August 2006: Summer events get great response; Bentley still doesn’t care; Tell your story more...


June 26, 2006 Part-time Times Special edition: College campaign gets hot; cool stuff available for summer! more...


May 8, 2006  Issue 5: Summer Job Opportunities


April 19, 2006  Issue 4: Campaign gears up for summer


February 13, 2006 Issue 3:  “Colleges are good, progressive employers,” college employer group says


December 19, 2005  Issue 2: Bentley won’t talk about union rights for college part-timers


October 28, 2005 Issue 1: Campaign aims to win equal rights for college part-timers

 



News
 

February 19, 2009 Toronto Star, The Hamilton Spectator, The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, The St. Catharines Standard and Welland Tribune, The Peterborough Examiner, The Sudbury Star and Brockville Intelligencer more...

January 30, 2009 Roger Couvrette on Metro Morning. www.cbc.ca/metromorning/ 

January 27, 2009  Kenora Daily Miner, Metroland - Toronto Division, The Sudbury Star more...

January 25, 2009 The Windsor Star more...

January 23, 2009 St. Catharines Standard, The Pioneer more...

January 22, 2009  Hamilton Spectator, Owen Sound Sun Times more...

January 21, 2009 Owen Sound Sun Times, Barrie Examiner more...

January 20, 2009 Peterborough Examiner,  Belleville Intelligencer more...

June 10, 2008 New bill to recognize rights of college part-timers comes with a high price tag more...

April 17, 2008 Windsor Star - Part-time college workers to unionize More...

April 16, 2008 Belleville Intelligencer  Loyalist part-timers have high union hopes more...

April 14, 2008 OPSEU will file an application with the Ontario Labour Relations Board today to represent more than 12,500 part-time and sessional employees working at 24 community colleges across Ontario. more...

March 27, 2008  Hamilton Spectator - OPSEU favours Dofasco model more...

March 26 2008 Dofasco arrangement is good bargaining model for college part-timers more...

March 17, 2008 Sudbury Star Part-timers talk first contract  more...

March 11, 2008  Welland Tribune Drumming up support  . more...

March 7, 2008 OPSEU asks for recognition for part-time college workers more...

February 22, 2008 Standard Freeholder:  OPSEU reaches out to part-timers at St. Lawrence in Cornwall more..

February 20, 2008 Kingston This Week: Largest Union Drive” stops by St. Lawrence College more....

February 19, 2008 Whig Standard – Kingston: St. Lawrence College staff may unionize more...

February 13 2008 Barrie Examiner : OPSEU rolls into Barrie to sign up college workers more...

February 12, 2008 London Topic: OPSEU leader calls for bargaining rights for college part-time staff more...

February 12, 2008 London Free Press --College workers call for union rights as administrators meet in London  more....

February 11, 2008 London Free Press: Protestors greet college administrators in London  more...

February 11, 2008 OPSEU News Release OPSEU president calls for recognition of bargaining rights “at the earliest possible moment”  more...

February 7, 2008 OPSEU News Release OPSEU bus heads for Fanshawe College in London more...

February 7, 2008 Brockville: OPSEU recruits part-timers at college  Brockville Recorder and Times - Part-time college workers are the target of a travelling recruitment drive by OPSEU at Brockville's St. Lawrence College more...

January 29, 2008 OPSEU News Release Largest union organizing drive in Ontario history kicks into high gear  more...

January 25, 2008 College organizing bus visits Durham The OPSEU college part-time campaign met the media in Whitby today, and toured Durham College. more...

January 23, 2008 OPSEU News Release  OPSEU praises Fleming College for “professional approach” to organizing drive more...
 

January 23, 2008 College stifles free speech: Union http://www.metronews.ca/story_local.aspx
id=103300&searchtype=1&fragment=False
 

January 22, 2008   OPSEU News Release Union organizing drive escalates into war over free speech at Algonquin College more...


December 17, 2007
Part-time workers organizing all across Ontario. from the Sheridan Sun

http://sheridansunonline.sheridanc.on.ca/
dec_13_2007/news_parttimeworkers.html


November 16, 2007
OPSEU Submission to Kevin Whitaker regarding college part-timers. more...


October 18, 2007
OPSEU launches largest union drive in Ontario history  more...


August 30, 2007
The Ontario government announced today it intended to recognize the collective bargaining rights of part-time college workers. more...


June 11, 2007
Ruling good for part-time college workers in Ontario Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court that collective bargaining rights are protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is very good news for part-time college workers in Ontario. more...


May 2, 2007
Compromising Quality - Rampant abuse of part-time staff in college system harms education quality.  more...


April 25, 2007
 Couvrette re-elected president of part-time college workers’ association more...


January 31, 2007 News Release: College workers ask McGuinty to change law and end exploitation of part-timers: Massive card-signing drive launched


November 20, 2006 Part-time Ontario college staff form new association to improve “third-world” working conditions

November 17, 2006 Part-time Ontario college staff to form new association

 

October 24, 2005 Make unions legal for college part-timers: OPSEU

 

May 18, 2005 Canada takes labour fight to Mexico while ignoring workers at home

 

 

 

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