Welcome message from our new Local 354 President and Chief Steward
New President First, I hope everyone is healthy and staying safe as we return to teaching this fall. My name is Kevin Griffin, and I am the OPSEU Local 354 president. I am …
Progress made in struggle to count part-time/sessional college faculty votes
Durham College among the final two holdouts providing needed documentation[ for next steps (from OPSEU.org) It’s been nearly four years since contract faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges voted on …
Special General Membership Meeting happening June 17th via Zoom
You are invited to participate virtually in a special Local 354 General Membership Meeting (GMM) on Thursday, June 17th from 2-4 p.m. This important meeting is for our union members only and will be held via Zoom. …
Wellbeing survey is now available for members
The union would like to know how you are doing. Last week we launched a survey called StressAssess. Some members have notified the local that the email went to their Spam Folder. …
Steward training available in February and March
Every union is only as good as its people and we need more good people to protect the rights of faculty and librarians. If you’d like to join us as …
Petition Action to Support Contract Faculty
As we all know, we’ve been facing a worsening crisis in post-secondary education with the election of the Ford government. His continued attacks on students and precarious faculty, while deeply unpopular, …
Welcome back to a new year!
By Pat Mongeon, OPSEU Local 354 President Welcome back to a new academic year. I wish you all a smooth start-up, and I want to let you know the local stewards and …
Late SWFs – $500 paid to you!
In the past 2 weeks, 2 of our faculty have received $500.00 as they had not yet received their workload for September. This penalty was imposed years ago with respect …
Internal Candidates
Local 354 has been in recent discussions with management regarding Article 27.11B. This Article speaks to the hiring of candidates in a certain order: internal, external lay-offs from other Colleges, …
Survey Results – DC Connect and Workload at Durham College
SURVEY RESULTS: DC CONNECT AND Workload at DURHAM COLLEGE Two weeks ago, May 27-31, your local Durham College faculty union circulated a survey monkey-type questionnaire on the topics of DC …