The Ontario College Podcast

Episode Five starts (0:49-5:35) with Jonathan covering bargaining events including Conciliation, the successful strike authorization vote, the Employer’s imposition of Terms & Conditions of employment, and the start of Work-to-Rule.  It continues (5:36-18:48)with a deep dive into the explicit and implicit messages of the Employer’s deployment of the Colleges’ communications platforms for Captive Audience Messages, before finishing off with an interview (19:10-40:00) with JP Hornick, Chair of the faculty bargaining team, in which we look back at the strike authorization vote, and discuss the meaning of imposed Terms & Conditions.

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Work-to-Rule Documents:

In Episode Four (recorded on Tuesday, Nov. 16), Jonathan starts by analyzing an interesting trend in the recent messages from the College Employer Council, before looking at the current state of bargaining, at the cusp of Conciliation following the CEC’s latest escalation. The episode wraps up with a discussion of the faculty bargaining team’s approach to proposals, with a deep dive into the super-sexy topic of the importance of dispute resolution mechanisms for joint committees.

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Episode 3 starts with an overview of the events of the last week at the bargaining table between the union representing faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges and the College Employer Council.  This includes the several proposals tabled by the CEC, as well as the proposal for a pre-conciliation mediation process, presented by the faculty bargaining team.  Then, Prof. Howard Doughty joins me to discuss his observations about the College system, based on his fifty years’ experience.  The episode wraps up with some thoughts about the thousands of hours that went into arriving at the Union’s 17 fundamental demands.

CEC Proposals (with explanatory notes from the faculty baragining team, where applicable):