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Navigating the pandemic: Living alone but needing to stick together
Whether living alone or caring for others, navigating this pandemic while maintaining a healthy work-life balance has been particularly challenging. Overcoming these […]
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Are Ontario universities and schools doing enough to care for students with children amid the COVID-19 crisis?
Many university students have child care responsibilities that they have had to balance with their academic work. With ongoing uncertainty around in-person […]
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Funding, Health and safety, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Students, Teaching and learning
Nursing students facing tough choices in order to graduate during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has put incredible strain on healthcare systems around the world. In Ontario, healthcare workers are in high demand. However, […]
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Baby matters: Gender politics in academia beyond COVID-19
Systemic inequality still dominates academia. Male academics continue to hold most senior positions while female academics are overrepresented amongst the precariously employed. […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
The ugly side of performance-based funding for universities
With the economic and labour disruption wrought by COVID-19, for a time it seemed Ontario and Alberta had realized the folly of […]
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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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