Bulletin Archive

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 […]

The strike by the 400-member Wilfrid Laurier University Staff Association ended Nov. 4 after ratification for a new collective agreement. The university's support staff had been on strike since Sept. 16, over contracting out, hours of work, job security, compensation […]

An arbitrator's decision finally ended Brock University's contract dispute with its faculty and librarians over salary increases. A salary reopener provision in the current three-year agreement included a mediation/arbitration mechanism to determine salaries for 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Negotiators for Brock […]

Violence against women takes many forms, but men can take the first step in acknowledging their part in ending violence against women, by wearing a white ribbon in November. The White Ribbon Campaign is entering its 11th year and continues […]

Trustees representing the 31 member associations and 14,000 academics met in October for the annual general meeting of the CAUT Defence Fund. The trustees, who are responsible for administering a fund with assets in excess of $13 million, spent considerable […]

CAUT has joined the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, a network of grassroots organizations, labor unions, advocates, and academics organized to link those demanding fairness for contingent workers. NAFFE is a coalition of organizations across a broad range of […]

Over the past 24 years there have been dramatic changes in the funding of Canadian universities. In 1978, government funding accounted for 84 per cent of Canadian universities' operating budgets. By 2002, that funding had declined to about 60 per […]

Selon toutes les indications, les études postsecondaires sont moins abordables en 2002 qu'elles ne l'ont été au cours des soixante dernières années conclut un rapport que l'ACPPU a rendu public en septembre. Intitulé Accès refusé : l'abordabilité des études postsecondaires […]

La ligne de partage au Moyen-Orient, complexe et acrimonieuse, s'étend aux campus universitaires d'Amérique du Nord, soulevant de graves questions au sujet de la liberté universitaire et de la liberté d'expression. Des manifestants pro-palestiniens en colère ont empêché l'ancien premier […]

Dès lors qu'il a annoncé la date de son départ, Jean Chrétien a cherché à laisser sa marque en tant que premier ministre. De nombreuses grosses promesses circulaient à la veille du discours du Trône. Si elles sont mises en […]