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Proposed Post-Secondary Legislation Will Strip Faculty Rights say Educators
Proposed Amendments Would Disallow Faculty Reps from Election to Local Boards “Premier Clark said she wants to do politics differently,” said Cindy Oliver President of the 10,000 member Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE), “but her government tabled legislation yesterday that is more of the same old bully tactics that her former boss Gordon Campbell used…
Hands Up for Fair Employment
This week in post-secondary institutions across Canada faculty and staff are highlighting the problems that non-regular faculty face in their demand for fair employment. It is a struggle that every local in our Federation takes on at the bargaining table and throughout the term of their collective agreements: the struggle to achieve fair and secure…
Polling Data Shows Growing Gap between Voters and Government on Post-Secondary Education
August has not been a great month for BC’s Premier Clark. The results of the HST referendum showed that even in many of the BC Liberal held ridings, the majority voted to get rid of the HST, a troubling outcome for a government that wants to rebuild its approval ratings with voters. Adding to the…
Jack Layton: Canada has lost a great Canadian
The news of Jack Layton’s passing has led to an outpouring of tributes, tributes that span the entire political spectrum and reflect the profound impact that this man had on our lives, our communities, but most of all, our country. The common theme that runs through so many of those tributes is the recognition that…
Welcome to the “New Era”, Stephen Harper Style
There was no press release or briefing document to substantiate what had been decided, just a tersely worded letter to senior administrators that “core” funding would be cut by more than half effective immediately. If any of this sounds like a re-play of what happened in British Columbia throughout the early days of Gordon Campbell’s…
Maureen Shaw receives Sarah Shorten Award
Maureen Shaw was presented with the Sarah Shorten Award at the Spring Council meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ (CAUT), held in Ottawa in May. Lisa Sharp, Chair of CAUT’s Women’s Committee, provided a brief background on Maureen’s career, noting that Maureen started as a contract faculty member at UBC in 1975 in…
Election Results Change Canada’s Political Landscape
It only took thirty-five days to play out, but by the time that the final ballots were counted in last night’s federal election the results may well represent the most significant changes in Canada’s political landscape in more than a generation. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives achieved majority status while Jack Layton’s New Democrats emerged as Canada’s…