@ericafd.bsky.social
Academic union activist in NS 🌊 | immigrant and precarious worker | PT Faculty | CUPE 3912 Exec | puma, gator y husky
(((Hugs)))
30.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sí, y ni siquiera se toman el tiempo de revisar si hay errores tan obvios como el género de la persona 🫠
22.11.2025 12:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fool = FFyL ? 😣
22.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
« I have coworkers who are homeless, who live in their cars or sleep on friends’ couches, because they aren’t being paid enough to afford rent,” CUPE 1259 President Dawn Vardy said. These are long term care workers, severely underpaid. An essential public service. #nspoli @cupens.bsky.social
20.11.2025 11:51 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
The info and petition below concerns arrested academics in Iran. Please consider signing/sharing it with colleagues.
Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran:
iranhumanrights.org/2025/11/writ...
Link to petition:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Choirs for Change Concerts in support of the #Halifax Refugee Clinic.
19.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Thank you, Jason! 🥰😎
17.11.2025 06:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In honour of @cupe3912.bsky.social and all the unions in #nspse and beyond who pushed back and smacked down overweening management and their consultant handlers this year:
17.11.2025 03:23 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Thank you ☺️🥰
16.11.2025 03:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graph showing stipends for contract academic staff (PT Faculty) at 12 universities in Atlantic Canada in 2024. Dalhousie, MSVU and SMU were among the lowest paid in the region.
Graph showing stipends for contract academic staff (PT Faculty) at 12 universities in Atlantic Canada in 2025. Dalhousie, MSVU and SMU are among the highest paid in the region.
Thank you for all your support in making this possible, @cupescfp.bsky.social, @cupens.bsky.social, @caut.bsky.social, @cautdefencefund.bsky.social! We went from being the lowest paid in the region to being among the highest paid! 🎉🤩 😎
#CDNPSE #canlab
Thank you ☺️
16.11.2025 02:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are happy to announce that SMU PT Faculty members have ratified the Tentative Agreement. Members will return to work and classes will resume on Monday.
Congratulations everyone!
#cdnpse #canlab
@caut.bsky.social @cupens.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social
"They [international researchers] are being welcomed to a system that is facing a funding crisis, where existing researchers are struggling," Robin Whitaker, CAUT President.
Read more: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Coverage of the SMU tentative agreement in CTV today:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/part-time-faculty-saint-marys-university-reach-tentative-agreement-over-wages-vacation-pay/
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
WE HAVE A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT! (SMU PT FACULTY, CHECK YOUR EMAIL! NOW!) Information Sessions on Nov 13: 9 am via Zoom with the Bargaining Team 12 pm in-person at the SMU Picket Line with Neil and Howard 6 pm via Zoom with the Bargaining Team
SMU Part-Time Faculty have a tentative agreement! SMU PT members, check your email for more information.
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
REVISED picketing schedule for Thursday, November 13:
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Regular picketing at SMU and MSVU sites. ALL members are invited to join the MSVU line to support the negotiation committee as they continue to fight for a fair contract.
Thank you, Rine! And thank you so much for all your work and support! 🩷
13.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, Robin!
13.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The employer and SMU CUPE 3912 Part-Time Faculty return to the Bargaining Table today.
We trust that the SMU Senior Admin and BOG will offer a fair deal so SMU students can get back into the classrooms next week and PT Faculty can be appropriately respected.
#solidarity
#SMUstrike It’s time for a #FairDealNow
#cdnpse #canlab @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cupens.bsky.social
#SMUstrike It’s time for a #FairDealNow
#cdnpse @caut.bsky.social
#SMUstrike It’s time for a #FairDealNow
@cupe3912.bsky.social @cupens.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
Today 36 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. The Eastern German people had stood up against oppression and dictatorship all year and the pressure became too big. The rest is history. Never say the people don't have power. I remember those images and being reunited with our Eastern German cousins ❤️
09.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Without stable financial support, [Canada's] university sector — an economic driver orders of magnitude larger than any resource sector — is under existential threat."
This is excellent.
The University Admin has reached out to us directly (not through the conciliator) 3 times and in none of those instances have they extended an invitation to go back to the table either. I have all these emails and can share them.
09.11.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On Friday at 4:21 PM, the Shannon emailed us directly requesting binding arbitration and 3 minutes later the email to the SMU community goes out.
09.11.2025 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And not emails sent by the Conciliator where she clearly states that this is not a proposal from the Employer but hers. In none of these two cases when the conciliator reached out to us, did she extend an invitation to meet with the Employer.
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