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Courage, strength, and resolve: How the King’s University College Faculty Association unionized in the middle of a pandemic
Facing a global health pandemic and an uncooperative administration, the King’s University College Faculty Association decided it was time to unionize. Now […]
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Collective bargaining, Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Governance, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
Rising to the challenge: Reflections on a round of pandemic bargaining
Bargaining is an intensive and complex process during the best of times, but what happened when the Brock University Faculty Association found […]
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Academic freedom, Collective bargaining, Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Universities and the academic mission
The parties agree that… The role of collective bargaining in advancing university goals
Universities play a vital role in society and the principles of academic freedom, tenure, equity, and institutional autonomy are foundational to their […]
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How the government restricts free and fair collective bargaining: An examination of faculty bargaining history as constrained by the “Ontario Labour Relations Act”
Looking back over half a century of bargaining by university faculty and librarians, it is clear that not all academics have seen […]
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Advancing equity and fairness through collective bargaining
Building more equitable and diverse universities is vital, but it can be challenging. By integrating equity into their bargaining process and prioritizing […]
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Pushing ahead: Advancing collective bargaining rights in the library
Well-resourced libraries are core to advancing the goals of the academy and the work of faculty and students. Often overlooked due to […]
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Bargaining in the shadow of BC’s Public Sector Employers’ Council
For three decades, the wages, benefits, and language British Columbia’s faculty associations are able to negotiate have been restricted by the government. […]
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Trending towards inequality: Understanding the role of universities in the rise of contract academic work
The 1990s are key to understanding how Ontario’s postsecondary institutions have systematically entrenched economic inequality between contract and tenure-stream faculty. Even with […]
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Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning
Healthy research ecosystem—healthy researchers? The researcher as an organism of focus within a research ecosystem
The academic research environment is changing and researchers report struggling to adapt in order to be successful. Funding shortfalls are perennial, but […]
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