CAUT - Fair Employment Week 2012, October 22 to 26

Issues & Campaigns

Fair Employment Week – October 22 to 26, 2012

The overuse and exploitation of contract academic staff is one of the biggest challenges facing the academic profession. That's why CAUT has joined with a coalition of organizations, unions and activists across the US, Canada and Mexico to organize Fair Employment Week. The goals of the Week are:

to raise contingent academic labour issues nationally and locally in media and policy circles, and
to stimulate organizing and support local collective bargaining initiatives.

FEW is a highly decentralized and flexible campaign. The uniting theme of fairness for contract academic staff is sufficiently general to allow academic staff associations to focus on the issue or issues most relevant to them, and to hold events appropriate to their situation. In previous years, the campaign has had a positive impact on negotiations. It has also helped increase contract academic staff involvement in faculty associations.

Visit this page regularly for ideas, information and materials to help you plan events on your campus. You can also check out the website for the US campaign (known as Campus Equity Week) at http://www.campusequityweek.org/

Questions about the campaign, or interested in getting involved? Contact Robert Johnson or (613) 820-2270 ext 193.

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