Bulletin Archive

Après sept mois de négociations intermittentes, les professeurs et professeures à temps partiel de l'Université Acadia ont accepté leur premier contrat avec l'employeur. L'entente d'un an comprend d'importantes hausses salariales, l'accès à des ordinateurs portables, la reconnaissance des années de […]

Plus de 200 universitaires contractuels militants provenant de toute l'Amérique du Nord se sont rassemblés à Montréal, en octobre, à l'occasion du cinquième congrès de la Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor. Des représentants d'associations et de syndicats de professeurs de […]

Les étudiantes et étudiants de la faculté de droit de l'Université McGill pourraient très bientôt faire face à une forte hausse de leurs frais de scolarité si le doyen actuel obtient ce qu'il souhaite. Selon Peter Leuprecht, on demandera ce […]

Le recteur de l'Université de Waterloo s'est excusé pour la manière dont son administration avait traité le don controversé de Microsoft Canada. Le recteur David Johnston a admis que le conseil d'université aurait dû approuver l'entente conclue avec Microsoft. " […]

Let me assure Ira Robinson that even in my corner of the ivory tower we collect information about what goes on in the classroom. We do this to ensure that our instructors are effective teachers whose lectures meet the canons […]

Following seven months of on-again, off-again talks, part-time faculty at Acadia University have accepted their first contract with the university. The one-year agreement includes significant wage increases, access to laptop computers, recognition of past service in hiring decisions, language on […]

Canada's post-secondary institutions are in real trouble due to underfunding on the part of both the federal and provincial governments, the consequences of which faculty and librarians have no difficulty seeing. The number of university and college teachers has declined […]

The president of the University of Waterloo has apologized over the way his administration recently handled a controversial donation from Microsoft Canada. President David Johnston admitted that the deal reached with Microsoft should have been approved by the university's senate. […]

You are 19 years old. Four years ago, you and your family fled the civil war in your home country, after your uncle and two cousins were murdered by the paramilitaries. Through a combination of resourcefulness, luck and the kindness […]

More than 200 contract academic staff activists from across North America gathered in Montreal in October for the fifth conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor. Representatives of faculty associations and unions from nine provinces, 15 states and Mexico […]

In late October, the Supreme Court of British Columbia granted CAUT intervenor status in B.C. college faculty unions' Charter challenge to Bill 28, the Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act. With Bill 28 in hand, college boards have the right […]

Full and part-time faculty at the University of Sudbury have set a strike deadline for Nov. 11 if a settlement is not reached before then. The professors are seeking a first collective agreement as members of a newly-certified bargaining unit […]