Cegep teachers, support staff unite for second one-day strike action 13 May 2021 at 17 h 16 min Reading time: 30 s
By Michael Boriero
Nicolas Lecomte stood in front of nearly 200 cegep teachers and support staff Thursday morning outside Sherbrooke’s city hall, demanding the Quebec government listen to public sector workers, as they continue to fight for a new collective agreement.
“Today is a really good example, all of us united, all of us cegep teachers, support staff, professionals, all together, showing the government that our demands are legitimate,” said Lecomte, president of the Champlain College Lennoxville Faculty Union.
This is the second one-day strike used by the union, but this time around they combined their voice with workers from the Cégep de Sherbrooke Teaching Staff Union, Professional Staff Union and Support Staff Union.
(CARLI BERRY / iNFOnews.ca) April 20, 2021 - 11:35 AM The B.C. Labour Relations Board has squelched an effort by some employees of Kelowna Cabs to decertify the union. This is the latest ruling in the long-standing conflict between the cab company and the union. The dispatchers and call takers have been without a collective agreement since 2019. During bargaining last November, the company issued layoff notices, saying the dispatchers were going to be replaced by an app. The labour board ordered the company to go back to the bargaining table. Talks broke off in February when the company locked out the workers.
Moving to remote learning expected to prevent 637 COVID-19 cases in Hamilton, data indicates
Moving from in-person to remote learning is expected to prevent 637 COVD-19 infections in the city, according to Hamilton Public Health data.
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Unions representing Hamilton education staff say public health should do more to protect workers and students.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Hamilton Public Health data indicates moving from in-person to remote learning is expected to prevent 637 COVD-19 infections in the city.
Dr. Dominik Mertz, Hamilton Health Sciences medical director of infection prevention control, shared the data during a hospital town hall on Thursday.
(STEVE ARSTAD / iNFOnews.ca) April 17, 2021 - 7:30 AM A woman who was fired from ICBC for not being honest about taking a vacation day in Penticton unsuccessfully grieved her firing at Labour Relations Board hearing. Rhianna Mundy was a part-time customer service adjuster working for ICBC in Surrey when she took a sick day on the August long weekend in 202 for a vacation in Penticton. Prior to the incident she had a clear disciplinary record with the ICBC. She was working remotely due to COVID-19 when she tried to book a vacation day off for the long weekend vacation, but was not allowed to do so.
Colleges Are Using COVID as an Excuse for Austerity. Unions Are Pushing Back.
Union workers protest layoffs at Harvard University on January 14, 2021, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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As COVID-19 swept across the U.S. last winter and spring, colleges and universities adapted swiftly to the situation. Though it was swift, it was not without pain: Just as quickly as professors learned to teach through a screen on Zoom, administrations slashed budgets. In the early days of the pandemic, little was certain about the future if students would defer fall enrollment, how states might cut education funding or if the federal government would step in to offset the financial impact of the crises. Nevertheless, public and private higher education institutions across the country put in place austerity measures ahead of what they foresaw as a fiscal emergency.