opseu local 560 - union for faculty at Seneca College

General Membership
Meeting  ~ Elections
Monday June 16, 2008

Dinner: 5:30 p.m.
Meeting: 6:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn Markham
7095 Woodbine Avenue, North of Steeles

The agenda will include:

•  Elections for the offices of Local 560:
•  Officers (7)
•  President
•  Vice-President
•  Employment Equity V. P.
•  Health & Safety Officer
•  Secretary
•  Treasurer
•  Chief Steward
•  Delegates (5) and Alternates (4)
•  Trustees (2)

Please note:

•  All full-time and partial-load members in attendance at the meeting may vote.
•  Officers of the local are elected from the 2008-2010 stewards.
•  All full-time and partial-load members are eligible to stand as delegates or alternates. Delegates will attend OPSEU and CAAT-Academic provincial functions, including CAAT-A Demand Setting this fall and the annual OPSEU Convention in the spring.
•  The two trustees must not be stewards.

The persons you elect at this meeting will represent you and guide the local for the next two years. Please plan to attend so that you can have input into the selection of these representatives.

A light dinner of sandwiches and drinks will be provided, and child care expenses can be claimed at the meeting. Membership forms will also be available. Parking is free.

Door prizes of movie tickets and more!

Workload Task Force | Return-to-Work Grievances | Pilot Projects | The Whitaker Report

 

 

Post-Strike Pension Buyback Instructions

Post-Strike Overtime Claims Update

Full Recognition of Accredited U.S. University Degrees
May Affect Your Salary Placement

Campaign to Organize Part-Time Workers at Ontario's Colleges

Life's not easy when you work part-time or as a sessional at an Ontario community college. You get paid less than your full-time colleagues. You have no benefit plan. You have no job security. And when you apply for a better job, your service doesn't count. It's hard to get ahead. 

Information on the organizing campaign for college part-time workers: http://www.opseu.org/caat/parttime/parttimeindex.htm

Membership Forms for part-time workers: http://www.opseu.org/caat/parttime/join.htm

Read the Rae Review on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario
Ontario: A Leader in Learning
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Rick Miner Enjoys
$362,288.69 Salary in 2007

Rick Miner, the same man who said, "$95,000 isn't bad for 14 hours a week, 35 weeks a year," a misleading and offensive comment on the salary and working conditions of CAAT-A faculty -- a memorable management PR moment during the Strike of 2006.

Source: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2007/colleg07.html

Re System Funding in Post-Secondary Education:

"I want to be very clear here about what the new funding is for. It is not to disappear into the administrative function of institutions. It is not a one-time infusion to make up for previous cutbacks. Its purpose is focused on accomplishing results: great education for students, more opportunities for people to attend and a secure postsecondary education system for the long term."

Bob Rae, in Ontario: A Leader in Learning, 2005

 

Please call us at the union office, (416) 495-1599, whenever you have questions about workload, salary, benefits, health & safety, or other contract and labour-relations matters.

 

"I consider it important, indeed necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status ... and to secure their influence in the political field."

~  Albert Einstein, explaining his decision to join the faculty union at Princeton

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