Robert Finbow

This Friday, Oct 3, join CUPE3912 for their rally. Great chance to show solidarity for our colleagues @dalhousieu.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong

Dal professors worry about a condensed fall semester With the fall semester shortened due to the faculty lockout, professors at Dalhousie University are restructuring their courses to fit a condensed schedule.

DFA members Julia M. Wright and Spring Farrell comment on surviving the condensed fall term. dalgazette.com/news/dal-pro... #KeepDalStrong

Oh, you thought because I wasn't angry posting every day about the stupid @dalhousie.bsky.social lockout that I had calmed down about the whole thing and everything was ok?

Nope.

The semester is a dumpster fire 🔥🔥🔥
Students are rightfully pissed 🤬🤬🤬
and I'M 👏 FUCKING 👏 TIRED 👏

#KeepDalStrong

A poster announcing the Dalhousie CUPE 3912 rally, Friday Oct 3rd at 1:30 p.m. in the Henry Hicks Quad at Dalhousie. It also says "Get a debrief on Thursday's conciliation session," "Meet the strike committee team" and "Ask questions." At the bottom, it says "Bring your friends and help us show Dal we need a fair deal now!" Finally, it lists their instagram account @dalhousie.unit.cupe3912 and TikTok account @dalhousiecupe3912

All out for @cupe3912.bsky.social this Friday! #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

Screen capture of a portion of an Acadia press release that reads: The negotiating teams revised 39 articles— 74% of the collective agreement —and created seven Memorandums of Agreement (MOA). Negotiators met 21 days at the table from May 6 to August 8 this year, and settled amicably at the table on August 8. “The two teams did a tremendous amount of work in a relatively short period of time and reached an agreement without a need for outside intervention.” says Anthony Pash, AUFA Lead Negotiator. “We thank the Board’s team for their hard work and willingness to engage in productive debate, and we hope that this is the model for negotiations going forward.”

Reading this release (www2.acadiau.ca/about-acadia...) makes me even more angry at the process we just endured. Acadia demonstrated both sides can commit to not only maintaining relationships but strengthening them. For me, relationships feel fractured and repair will take time.

#KeepDalStrong

New original article: What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union

From: @donatodc.bsky.social, Lorenzo Moretti, and @manuelamoschella.bsky.social

#polisky
#PAsky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#keepdalstrong?

a man is standing on a stage holding a microphone and saying `` now what i should have said . '' ALT: a man is standing on a stage holding a microphone and saying `` now what i should have said . ''

Honestly, saying nothing would have been better than that “people are urging me to say something” email to faculty. #KeepDalStrong

From the Dalhousie community on Reddit: The most stupid useless email I've ever received in my 5 years at Dalhousie University Explore this post and more from the Dalhousie community

www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

"I got caught doing wrong, so I was urged by some people to send a non-apology"
#keepdalstrong

I'm still concerned about disrespectful *actions*, including the lockout itself and the damage it caused to everyone (a difficult Fall term for students & faculty, loss of pay, for some loss of grant opportunities). Before we move on, I think we need those responsible to acknowledge those harms.

I made the mistake of checking my junk folder and learned that the #DalLockout2025 did a bunch of bad things, even to the president who ordered it.

I'll be using the e-mail in class as an example of how the passive voice is used to cloud responsibility.

#KeepDalStrong

Just when you thought it was safe to check your Dal email…

I do feel badly that #DalLockout2025 upset our senior admin so. They should probably look into who ordered it so they can be told never to do something so destructive again, and to refund the students.

#KeepDalStrong

I've also found students ready to participate and learn. They know what they have missed.

#keepdalstrong

Disrespectful discourse? I assume not from senior admin, in their opinion?

Useful posting from @dalfaculty.bsky.social on admin salaries #keepdalstrong www.instagram.com/p/DO_VNG5DuG...

Nova Scotia releases update on housing plan Nova Scotia released an updated on it’s five-year housing plan, saying it is on track to meet its goals.

I will believe it when I see it, the problem is also the rental $$, we need more than 19,000 affordable units, according to CMHC, Nova Scotia needs 14,500 per year of affordable units. This 19,000 total is pathetic.

#NovaScotia
/1 (see 2nd post in thread from cmhc)

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Illustration of a person holding her stomach depicting hunger and thinking about a burger. The caption says 28.9% of Nova Scotians are food insecure, the highest rate in the country.

#halisky #novascotia #canada

And meanwhile Acadia is providing more childcare spaces with faculty and staff getting priority.

So our department is doubly burdened this term; coping with a fractured term and expelled from our offices, packing urgently for a move by Christmas. The Admin will take our spots, making vanity upgrades like real wood panels in the elevators, not new daycare spaces. #keepdalstrong?

As I said in Senate yesterday: saying course outcomes won’t be affected is a pipe dream. Of course they will.

But unlike lengthier disruptions in the past to 90%+ of courses (pandemics, massive storms), this one was a choice, made by Kim Brooks and the Board.

Refund the students. #KeepDalStrong

I mentioned tech offered to teach me classroom set up on Sept. 2 when classes were empty because of the strike. I asked them to come before class today, but got no response. I assume this is the level of support instructors can expect as they try to work overtime to salvage the term? #keepdalstrong?

From the Dalhousie community on Reddit: Just a reminder about how out of touch Dalhousie University is Explore this post and more from the Dalhousie community

With cuts to many supports services and new orders on videos and transcriptions of lectures, it's not clear that we are supported enough to make term successful. But there's no excuse to charge students for missed time.
www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/... #keepdalstrong

Protest poster with a yellow background and bold black text reading: 'STUDENTS BETRAYED, FUTURES AT RISK. CLASSES CANCELLED. SCHOLARSHIPS GONE. FUTURES BLOCKED.' Includes a broken diploma scroll illustration and the hashtag #KEEPDALSTRONG.

No question, when @Dalhousie.bsky.social tells students that they will not receive any tuition concessions for the reduced course time, content, and learning caused by Dal's lockout of @dalfaculty.bsky.social, they are clearly stating they care more about student money than students.
#KeepDalStrong

Thanks for all your hard work on the JAC and the excellent and informative bulletins. Hopefully you can mix some rest and recreation with recovering the term.

The final Job Action bulletin from the DFA: Once More, with Feeling (and lots of thanks!) #KeepDalStrong

If I had the money, I would subscribe to the Trillium. Doug Ford is such a gangster. The corruption is world class. If our legacy press was half as good, there would be a Doug Ford story at least as bad as this every week for year.
#onpoli #FordFailedOntario
bsky.app/profile/sodd...

I will have to look into this. Their saddling us with MS and Sharepoint has been full of annoyances and security risks.