Category: OCUFA

Dear Colleagues: Please find attached a Globe and Mail article on the OCUFA provincial poll released at the OCUFA “Academia in the Age of Austerity” conference on January 10, 2013. Regional results of the OCUFA poll will be released on January 18, 2013 in Hamilton (GTA), January 29, 2013 in Ottawa (eastern Ontario), February 6, […]

OCUFA releases new public opinion data concerning attitudes to government austerity and higher education. The results (OCUFA Survey 2013 – General Results – Jan. 10 2013)are attached to this email along with the accompanying press release (2013.01.10 – OCUFA Release – Austerity Survey Release).

Dear Colleagues: On December 12 the Auditor General of Ontario tabled his 2012 Report.  It contained the results of the audit of university undergraduate teaching quality and resulted in five recommendations. OCUFA staff have had an opportunity to review the entire report, in particular the section (3.12) most pertinent to our members. The report can […]

Dear Colleagues: Nominations are now open for OCUFA’s  2012 Lorimer Award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to improving the terms and conditions of employment of Ontario university faculty through bargaining. It was created by OCUFA in 2009 in honor of Doug and Joyce Lorimer. Attached to this email, please find a promotional flyer you can print […]

Dear Colleagues: The theme of OCUFA’s annual conference for January 2013 will be “Academia in the Age of Austerity”.   In light of Ontario government’s “austerity agenda”, including its proposed sweeping anti-labour legislation and agenda for higher education, and in light of other government initiatives across Canada and globally, the OCUFA conference will be addressing […]

Dear Colleagues: The OCUFA Pension webcasts — Pensions Now (held October 16 and 17, 2012) and Pension Alternatives (held October 22 and 23, 2012) —  were recorded and can now be viewed again on the OCUFA website. The link to the webcasts is: http://ocufa.on.ca/members-area/pesionwebcasts/ To enter, please use the pass code: ocufaPeNsi0n Could you please […]

Dear Colleagues: You will now have heard that this evening (October 15, 2012) Dalton McGuinty resigned as premier and prorogued the Ontario Legislature.  This means that all legislative business comes to a halt and all legislation currently being considered dies on the order paper.  When a new session of the Legislature is eventually convened, it […]

Dear Colleagues: As recent headlines attest, the Ontario government appears to be closing in on a new framework for university pension plans in this province.  In order to develop an informed response to government proposals, faculty members need a full understanding of the potentially dramatic impact these government actions could have on their financial futures. […]

Dear Colleagues: A comprehensive summary and analysis of the Ontario government’s draft labour legislation, Protecting Public Services Act 2012 has been prepared for OCUFA by the legal team at Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell.  It focusses in particular on Schedule 2, titled Respecting Collective Bargaining Act (Public Sector), 2012. The summary and analysis can be accessed by […]

Dear Colleagues; This morning, OCUFA released its response to the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities discussion paper, Strengthening Ontario’s Centres of Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge. Our submission, titled Growing Ontario’s Universities for the Future, will be officially launched at a Queen’s Park press conference this morning alongside responses from the Canadian Federation of Students, […]