Travis Perry

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

Our colleagues at the U of Lethbridge need your support. Join their letter writing campaign for a fair deal. ULFA members are paid an average of 15-20% less than academic staff at comparative institutions, and have some of the worst health benefits in the industry. www.ulfa.ca/take-action/

The Board-ordered lockout that began Aug 20 has finally ended: classes start on Tues. I’m excited; but I hope that someone is not now trying to concoct a report on the ‘success’ of this innovative tactic in the ‘rebalancing of markets and mission’. By what KPI would they benchmark it? 🧵 (1/7)

Flying pickets from @caut.bsky.social and @cautdefencefund.bsky.social getting ready to hit the @dalfaculty.bsky.social picket lines! #keepDalStromg

Special weekend supplement of the DFA Daily Bulletin: Labour Day BBQ! @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong

“Stop Dictating; Start Negotiating.”

Keep Dal Strong
@dalfaculty.bsky.social
#keepdalstrong
#InSolidarity

Showing up in New Brunswick in solidarity with our DFA colleagues @dalfaculty.bsky.social to help #KeepDalStrong after we were locked out by @dalhousieu.bsky.social in a labour disruption. Our medical students were supposed to be learning anatomy this week, but are now a week behind
Let's negotiate

Unions representing 200,000 (!) workers showed up to support @dalfaculty.bsky.social Labour Union solidarity is STRONG in Halifax!

@dalhousie.bsky.social ... we will keep showing up as long as it takes for our colleagues to get back to the bargaining table and secure a fair deal.

#KeepDalStrong

Association of Dalhousie University Research Employees PSAC Local 86001 Association of Dalhousie University Research Employees

Shout out to PSAC Local 86001 for supporting DFA's efforts. They set up a DFA Lockout Page with info and a letter campaign targeting the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board. It takes an army to push back against the Board and #KeepDalStrong
a-duress.ca/dfa-lockout

An overwhelming 82.7% of DFA (Dalhousie Faculty Association) members who participated voted to REJECT the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board’s offer of August 11, 2025.

A clear message from DFA members to #keepdalstrong

Keep Dal Strong

Just wanted to share this playlist again, in case you missed it 👇

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#keepdalstrong
Keep Dal Strong
Silly @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board

As a proud member of @munfaculty.bsky.social, I support our comrades @dalfaculty.bsky.social
Full support for #KeepDalStrong! ✊

Infographic with text reading: Dalhousie University has locked out the Dalhousie Faculty Association. See our letter to the Dalhousie University President and Board of Governors—calling on them to return to good faith bargaining—on the following slides.

Infographic with text reading: Background: On August 11th, 2025, Dalhousie University Board of Governors and the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) met for their final conciliation meeting. The DFA represents approximately 1000 professors, instructors, librarians and professional counsellors at Dalhousie University. The Board walked away from this meeting at noon without any notice to the DFA team or the conciliator. The Board’s final offer was presented to DFA members on August 14th and 18th, 2025, with voting on it set to close on August 21st, 2025, at 4pm. Despite voting on the Board’s final offer not yet being complete, Dalhousie University announced on August 18th, 2025, that it would take the unprecedented step of locking its faculty out, beginning August 20th, 2025. This lockout is the first ever by a Canadian U15 University. At 9:30am on August 20th, 2025, the DFA launched a defensive strike.

Infographic with text reading: We, the PSAC Local 86001 Executive Board, stand unequivocally in solidarity with all Dalhousie Faculty Association members following the unprecedented decision taken by Dalhousie University to lockout its faculty, staff and librarians.

Infographic with text reading: We are deeply troubled by this lockout, but unfortunately, after our own experiences of collective bargaining with Dalhousie University, we are not surprised. This lockout not only disrupts the vital work of faculty, librarians, and instructors, but also undermines the quality of education, research, and community life at Dalhousie University. The majority of PSAC Local 86001 members work with DFA members every day: we see the effort that they put into “inspiring minds”, and how critical they are to the entire Dalhousie community.

The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors have taken the unprecedented move to lock out @dalfaculty.bsky.social. We’ve written to the BOG urging them to return to good faith bargaining with DFA. We stand in solidarity with all DFA members. @psac-afpc.bsky.social

@dalfaculty.bsky.social wants to negotiate.
@dalhousieu.bsky.social BoG walked away from conciliation & called a lockout while faculty were still voting on their offer. ANSUT stands in solidarity with colleagues at the DFA. #KeepDalStrong

Solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social in their struggle for fairness. Our members @munfaculty.bsky.social we’re her just a couple years ago (though in Feb not balmy August!)

...2/2 This WILL STILL impact students.. & admin will blame faculty for it. It also aims to take away on-campus student support for their profs. Bluntly, it's a dick move by Dal, dismissive of their faculty and students. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. #Solidarity!

I am disgusted by the locking out of @dalfaculty.bsky.social by the administration @dalhousie.bsky.social. This is clearly an attempt to bully the faculty with appearing to not impact the students. Rubbish. This is when most faculty shift to intensive preparations for the fall term... 1/2

Students have set up an open letter, which students can sign, in support of @dalfaculty.bsky.social! THANK YOU! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Solidarity is pouring in from across the country for @dalfaculty.bsky.social The lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social is not a good look and it won't break the Union. #KeepDalStrong

CUPE Nova Scotia proudly stands in solidarity with the @dalfaculty.bsky.social, who were locked out today by @dalhousie.bsky.social. Dal has repeatedly disrespected these workers by walking away from the bargaining table and refusing to engage.

#keepdalstrong

‪We stand in solidarity with the members of the @dalfaculty.bsky.social who have been locked out by their employer. We are appreciative of the public intellectual work that so many members do in partnership with us! A fair agreement must be met at the bargaining table. Solidarity.

#NSpoli

“Democracy needs universities, not credential factories or degree mills. It needs places where disagreement is taught, not denied; where complexity is invited, not simplified or avoided; and where reasoning is cultivated, not squeezed; where one is broadly and comprehensively educated.”

The Board is threatening to lock Faculty out, halt their research, alienate our partners, and disrupt the Fall term, all in an effort to decimate the very faculty who help us “punch above our weight” on the global stage.

How will that help our “global reputation” one wonders? #KeepDalStrong

« There are many outstanding issues on the table […] They include: […] preventing full-
time jobs from becoming precarious sessional contracts; ending the practice of using limited-term
contracts for continuing teaching needs; […] »

Stop the #gigification of work

#KeepDalStrong @caut.bsky.social

@cupe3912.bsky.social stands in #solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social as they fight to get back to the table to protect their collective agreement and stop the #gigification of academic work at #DalhousieUniversity

#KeepDalStrong @caut.bsky.social #cdnpse #canlab

Dalhousie, faculty union begin 14-day countdown to possible strike or lockout | CBC News One final date for conciliation is scheduled for Aug. 11, and a labour disruption could start Aug. 12.

DFA President Dave Westwood not optimistic there will be a resolution before the 14-day deadline of August 11. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social DFA trying to #keepdalstrong, but the Board won't come to the table.

Picket signs arrived at the DFA office today. Hopefully we won't need to unwrap them!

While our bargaining team wants to get back to the table and avoid job action, we will be ready if the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors won't bargain. #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.

HEADS UP 🧵

As the NDP leadership rules and race unfold, you’re going to be hearing from lots of party insiders, quoted in places like the Globe & Mail, CTV and CBC.

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/ar...