UWO Faculty Association

Colour blocked image with text explaining myths and facts about fair dealing copyright. Text that reads "Myth: Canadian authors' royalties have declined because educators are paying less for content. Fact: Education institutions are paying more than ever for content that is increasingly digital and not print."

This Fair Dealing week, we’re breaking down myths and facts about fair dealing.

There’s this belief that educators are the reason for the decline in author royalties. That couldn’t be further away from the truth.

Learn more at copyright.caut.ca

Colour blocked image with text explaining myths and facts about fair dealing copyright. Text reads "Myth: Copyright's primary purpose is to ensure authors are paid. Fact: Copyright law has always been about balancing users' and creators' rights."

This Fair Dealing week, we’re breaking down myths and facts about fair dealing.

We tend to think of copyright as being only about protecting creators, works and ensuring those creators get paid. But copyright is all about balance.

Learn more at copyright.caut.ca

A light teal background with an illustration of hands throwing up graduation hats. Text: Four years of tuition at an Ontario university costs about $40,000. Only 20% of Ontarians age 15-17 have enough saved for tuition. Ontario students need more grants, not loans. Ontario universities need more funding.

Ontario students need more grants, not loans.

Ontario universities need more funding.

Read more about funding universities: tinyurl.com/ysvh6muj

A jar of change on a desk with a computer keyboard and financial documents. Text on a teal background reads: Ontario students need more grants, not more loans, to make university more affordable. Ontario universities need stable, long-term government funding. These are the keys to a thriving postsecondary sector.

At a minimum, cuts to OSAP grants will have paid for 43% of announced university funding increases—and possibly more. These changes exacerbate the affordability crisis and risk putting a university education out of reach for many students. tinyurl.com/yjccsa9r

Yesterday, we met with MP Peter Fragiskatos to address funding decisions shaping teaching and learning. We raised the Canada Student Grant reduction, capital funding barriers for affiliates, and how government support for institutional grants can improve student support and postsecondary education.

It is official. As of 12:01am, LUFA members will officially be on strike for a better, stronger university. 📢

Together we will win the contract we deserve. 🪧

Act Now: End the CCAA Exit Loan Controls — Let LUFA bargain freely Join LUFA in calling on the government and the Laurentian University Board of Governors to lift the remaining CCAA Exit Loan Agreement restrictions to allow for free and fair collective bargaining.

Act now: email the Ontario government telling them to remove the unnecessary limitations on @lufappul.bsky.social's right to free and fair bargaining. Send your letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...

📣 Stop by the UWOFA office (Elborn College, Room 2120) to sign the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) “Fund Our Universities” petition!
If you can’t make it to Elborn, no problem. Connect with your steward, who will have a copy for you to sign! ✍️✊

Ontario’s university funding review is nearly complete, yet faculty and students, the people at the heart of our institutions, were excluded from consultations.

ocufa.on.ca/briefs-and-s...

University faculty & staff are the backbone of our postsecondary system. Great to meet with @ocufa.bsky.social reps from @uwofa1.bsky.social, King’s & Huron. With record enrolment, Ontario needs more investment, not more red tape, to keep our campuses strong. #onpse #onpoli

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

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

This Advocacy Day, OCUFA continues to share critical issues facing our sector. Despite the government’s 2019 decision to cap and freeze domestic tuition, Ontario domestic undergraduates still pay rates of tuition well above the Canadian average with higher levels of debt.

📣 Faculty, librarians, staff, and students stood together for fairness, accountability, and the future of the campus community. The Rally for Arts and Humanities was just the beginning — we’re "all in". 💜

It’s @caut.bsky.social Fair Employment Week! 🎓 Contract faculty go above and beyond, mentoring students, supporting their publishing, and bringing them to conferences, all out of passion, not pay. Join the call for the fair treatment of contract academic staff! #fairemploymentweek #makeitfair #onpse

Promotional image for CAUT's Fair Employment Week keynote. Photo of speaker Dr. Kendra Strauss with text that reads "Make it Fair. A Discussion with Dr. Kendra Strauss on academic freedom and precarity. Wednesday, October 22 at 12pm EDT."

There's still time to register for Wednesday's Fair Employment Week keynote! Register for the webinar now to hear Dr. Kendra Strauss discuss academic freedom and precarity.

More information: www.caut.ca/event/a-disc...

🚨 Emilda Thaveratnam's recent op-ed in @theconversation.com provides valuable context about the founding vision for post-secondary education in Ontario, as well as the serious threats this vital sector is facing.

Today we honour survivors of residential schools, their families, and the communities forever impacted. Reconciliation lives in what we teach, collect, and research. We must choose to challenge colonial narratives, and make space for Indigenous voices and ways of knowing.

Illustration of a magnifying glass above text that reads "Take action now! Tell the Prime Minister not to cut science and research funding in the Budget on November 4."

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research and science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

📢 We stood with @opseusefpo.bsky.social college front line workers on strike today.

Chronic underfunding and short-sighted policies leave workers carrying the burden. Fair funding and a post-secondary system that values the people who make it work are long overdue. ✊#onpoli #onpse #onlab

Dalhousie, faculty association come to tentative agreement | CBC News The date that classes will resume is expected to be announced later Tuesday.

Congrats to our colleagues @dalfaculty.bsky.social on reaching a tentative agreement! ✊ Your strength and unity throughout this difficult round of bargaining are an inspiration to faculty associations across the country.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Join us! Friday September 12 for the Solidarity March starting at the Killam Library on University Avenue. Let's show @dalhousieu.bsky.social Admin and Board a level of solidarity they have not seen before! #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

@kunalchaudhary.bsky.social analysis in The Local continues to shine a light on the deep-seated crisis facing our world-class public universities.

Ontario can and must do better. The future of the province’s learners and economy depends on it.

#OntarioPSE #PostSecondaryFunding #HigherEd

At the LDLC Labour Day Picnic, we stood with workers across sectors to celebrate solidarity 💪. We spoke with the community about the urgent need to fund public higher education. Universities should be places where students succeed & faculty/staff are fairly supported. Public funding is needed🎓.

Need to know more about what's going on between APPUSB and USB's admin?
APPUSB went on CBC's Information Radio with Cory Funk last Tuesday.
https://f.mtr.cool/nvdmmdtlmu

L'APPUSB a déjà récolté plus de 200 signatures. 
Avez-vous envoyé votre lettre ? Deux minutes suffisent: 

https://f.mtr.cool/qgadwknnxc

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APPUSB has collected over 200 signatures. 
Have you sent your letter? It only takes two minutes: 

https://f.mtr.cool/qynsahohxd

Patti Doyle-Bedwell is on DFA’s Bargaining Team. She urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board to come back to the table- we are now on day 7 of complete silence from the Board. Time to talk, don’t you think? #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Naiomi Metallic talks about how her students will miss an opportunity to learn some foundational info re: indigenous law the longer this lockout continues. @dalhousieu.bsky.social, come back to bargain and help us to #keepdalstrong @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social

All welcome to join DFA's 1st rally in 23 years! In front of the Killam Library, Friday August 22 at 12 noon, half an hour only. See you there! Help us to #KeepDalStrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @nsgeu.bsky.social

“As a national association of employee organizations and trade unions, CAUT proudly stands in solidarity with CUPE’s Air Canada flight attendants."

Read more: www.caut.ca/news/caut-co...