What are the issues? What has been offered?

💡Did you know?

The OPSEU Bargaining Team wants to control all contracting out. Appendix I of the Full-Time Support Collective Agreement already protects employees from losing a job caused by direct contracting out.

 

Here’s how it works:
✅ If you have completed your probation, you cannot be released.
✅ If the contracted company offers you similar terms and conditions, you can take the job or return to college in the first year

 

In the College Employer Council proposal, colleges have offered:
✅ Extending the time to return to the college to 2 years
✅ Providing subsidized upskilling and retraining to support career growth

 

This means job security and more opportunities for support staff.

 

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞.

🤝 Collaboration has always been at the heart of Ontario’s colleges.

The OPSEU Bargaining Team is demanding that any type of “support staff role” is only able to be performed by support staff.

This means that a dean would not be allowed to tell a student about:
❌ Financial aid opportunities
❌ Study techniques

All college workers must be able to collaborate and help students. This is not a threat to support staff job security.

Here’s how it works:
✅ Support staff roles are protected in the Collective Agreement in Article 1 and Appendix B
✅ There are remedies already available to prevent management from taking over support staff responsibilities

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞.

🌟What is in it for you?

Colleges are committed to building a stronger Ontario college system.

We remain focused on reaching a fair agreement that supports our full-time support staff and strengthens the entire college community.

Here are some of the improvements colleges have already put forward:

1. Monetary provisions
   ✅ Wage increases of 2.25 percent, 2 percent and 2 percent over three years
   ✅ Enhanced severance
   ✅ Higher shift and on-call premiums
2. Benefit improvements
   ✅ Enhanced vacation carry-over rights
   ✅ Higher vision and hearing aid limits
   ✅ Expanded bereavement leave
   ✅ Domestic or sexual violence leave of up to 5 paid days
3. Stronger protections related to technological changes, and enhancements to the contracting out language.

📖 You can read the full list of improvements here

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞.