Brock University Faculty Association

#Election2025 is under way and it’s time to speak out for PSE.

Drastic cuts and threats to academia and research have shown that PSE is facing a crisis.

Our institutions are the key to Canada’s future.

Join us: education2025.ca

Politicians don’t get to dictate what is taught and researched at Canadian colleges and universities.

Research and institutional funding shouldn’t come with political strings attached.

Join us: education2025.ca

Professor teaching in front of a group of students. Text that reads "Canada needs strong universities and colleges."

It’s election day in Ontario and universities and colleges need your help.

Ontario colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures.

Don’t forget to vote today – tell the Ontario government they need to act NOW to save PSE.

This election, ask your candidates to: Stop the gigification of teaching. Reform the Employment Standards Act language to include equal pay for work of equivalent value for workers in the province, including contract faculty, using pro rata system. Vote for equal pay for equal work on February 27. OCUFA

Today is OCUFA's annual contract faculty social media day of action. This #ONElxn, we are asking political parties to stop the gigification of teaching and provide permanent, stable jobs for contract faculty. Join the movement for #Fairness4CF @ocufa.bsky.social t.co/AQ4MDkJC4c

This election, ask your candidates to: Stop the gigification of teaching. For many contract faculty, "part time" teaching is not their side job. It's their only job and sole source of inclome. Hiring contract faculty into permanent positions will create good jobs on our campuses and allow them to invest in their local economies. On February 27 vote for job security! OCUFA

🗳️The Ontario election is February 27th. ➡️Send a message to the party leaders asking them to commit to supporting Ontario universities to help them drive innovation and economic growth. #ONpoli #ONPSE #Fairness4CF @ocufa.bsky.social buff.ly/4k2uXRA

This election, ask your candidates to: Stop the gigification o teaching. End the precarious work crisis on campuses by introducing an updated funding model that allows universities to commit long-term, stable and permanent employment fot contract faculty members. @OCUFA

On February 27th, vote to end the gigification of teaching. Universities need a funding model that supports long-term, stable, and permanent positions for contract faculty. Email the party leaders now and ask them to commit to #Fairness4CF. #ONpoli#ONPSE buff.ly/4k2uXRA

Ontario Election 2025 - OCUFA

2025 Ontario Provincial Election:
OCUFA has developed an advocacy platform to guide the work ahead and mobilize our key election priorities. The election will be held February 27, 2025.
Here are OCUFA’s solutions for stronger universities, and a stronger Ontario:
ocufa.on.ca/campaigns/on...

On Canadian university and college campuses, students should be free to learn and teachers free to teach. Post-secondary education needs to remain free from political interference.

Sur les campus collégiaux et universitaires canadiens, la population étudiante doit être libre d’apprendre et le corps professoral doit être libre d’enseigner. L’enseignement postsecondaire doit être libre de toute ingérence politique.

#MAKEITFAIR for Contract Academic Staff. A photo of Paddy, who is a golden doodle wearing a @CAUT t-shirt.

Job security, fair pay, and benefits for contract faculty will deliver fairness for workers and protect the high‐quality education our students deserve. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca

#MAKEITFAIR for Contract Academic Staff. 53% of Canadian faculty are underpaid, and they're untenured, which means they don't have job security.

It doesn’t have to be this way. With an 11.75% increase in funding, universities could make more permanent, tenured positions for contract faculty. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNPSE ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca

#MAKEITFAIR for Contract Academic Staff. The Ontario government can help end the precarious work crisis on campus by properly funding universities.

Ontario is in last place compared to all other provinces and territories when it comes to funding the university sector. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNPSE ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca

#MAKEITFAIR for Contract Academic Staff. Workers on campuses across the province are fighting for fairness and job security, benefits, and equal pay for equal work.

Too many contract faculty have to reapply for their jobs every term and don’t know if they will be teaching semester-to-semester or year-to-year. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNPSE ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca

#MAKEITFAIR for contract academic staff. More than 84% of Ontarians think that contract faculty should receive fair pay, access to benefits, and be converted into full time positions.

It’s time for job security, fair pay, and benefits for contract faculty! Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNpse
ocufa.on.ca/fairness and makeitfair.caut.ca/

CAUT Journal has published a new piece. It is on the experience of Contract Academic Staff.
Check it out: journal.caut.ca/index.php/ca...

#CdnPSE

"There’s still time for @mcgillu to right the ship, to sit down and bargain a contract, to drop its spurious judicial review, and to begin to rebuild the relationship with its faculty and students." lawofwork.ca/on-mcgill-un...
@BUFABrock stands in #Solidarity with @AMPL_AMPD! @CautFund #CDNPSE

BUFA, and other Faculty Associations across Canada, standing in solidarity with Association of McGill Professors of Law @AMPL/AMPD with CAUT flying pickets.

BUFA stands in solidarity with the Association of McGill Professors of Law, with Canadian Association of University Teachers flying pickets at McGill. #solidarity #CDNpse

A group of people of diverse identities stands around an image of the Ontario legislative building with a circle pointing at the building, which reads 11.75%. Some people are smiling, some have their fists raised. A banner under them reads: Together, we can! Under the banner, a message box contains the statement: together, we can improve working conditions for faculty and learning conditions for students. Many contract faculty face unfair working conditions, and all faculty are facing unsustainable workloads. For faculty, this means less time for research and course development. For students, this means larger classes, less one-on-one student-faculty engagement, and fewer opportunities for mentorship and advising. For the community, it means less time for faculty to engage in pioneering research that can benefit Ontario economically, culturally, and socially. In the bottom left of the image, there is a website link for ocufa.on.ca/fairness, and on the bottom right is the OCUFA logo.

OCUFA is calling on the provincial government to invest 11.75% into our universities over the next five years to ensure #Fairness4CF, students, and all campus workers to improve campus conditions for everyone. #TogetherWeCan #OnLAB #BrockU #OnPOLI #CDNPSE #ONPSE #ONLAB ocufa.on.ca/fairness

A group of people of diverse identities stands around an image of the Ontario legislative building with a circle pointing at the building, which reads 11.75%. Some people are smiling, some have their fists raised. A banner under them reads: Together, we can! Under the banner, a message box contains the statement: Together, we can create more good jobs on campus. Hiring contract faculty into tenured or permanent positions will create more good jobs on our campuses and ensure students have access to the quality learning experience they deserve. The background has yellow and blue lines in a sunburst style emanating from the group of people. In the bottom left of the image, there is a website link for ocufa.on.ca/fairness, and on the bottom right is the OCUFA logo.

Many #ContractFaculty can't put down roots on campus because their jobs are unstable. OCUFA calls for an 11.75% increase in funding investment in our universities over the next five years to create good jobs, strong campuses, and strong communities. #TogetherWeCan #Fairness4CF ocufa.on.ca/fairness

A group of people of diverse identities stands around an image of the Ontario legislative building with a circle pointing at the building, which reads 11.75%. Some people are smiling, some have their fists raised. A banner under them reads: Together, we can! Under the banner, a message box contains the statement: Together, we can improve student-to-faculty ratios. In 2020-21, the student-to-faculty ratio at Ontario universities was about 32:1, well above the Canadian average of about 26:1. The background has yellow and blue lines in a sunburst style emanating from the group of people. In the bottom left of the image, there is a website link for ocufa.on.ca/fairness, and on the bottom right is the OCUFA logo.

With an 11.75% increase in provincial #OnPSE funding, we could bring student-to-faculty ratios closer to the national average and make more contract faculty permanent. #Fairness4CF #BrockU #OnLAB #OnPOLI #CdnPSE #TogetherWeCan ocufa.on.ca/fairness

A group of people of diverse identities stands around an image of the Ontario legislative building with a circle pointing at the building, which reads 11.75%. Some people are smiling, some have their fists raised. A banner under them reads: Together, we can! Under the banner, a message box contains the statement: Together, we can win job security for contract faculty. Contract faculty are hired by individual course or on limited-term appointments. Many must reapply for their jobs every term, are hired to teach courses for less pay than their full-time, tenure-stream colleagues, and lack access to benefits. The background has yellow and blue lines in a sunburst style emanating from the group of people. In the bottom left of the image, there is a website link for ocufa.on.ca/fairness, and on the bottom right is the OCUFA logo.

It doesn’t have to be this way. OCUFA is proposing an 11.75% annual increase to #ONPSE provincial funding over the next five years, ensure job security and #Fariness4CF. #BrockU #CdnPSE #ONPOLI #ONLAB #TogetherWeCan ocufa.on.ca/fairness

#MAKEITFAIR for Contract Academic Staff More than 84% of Ontarians think Contract Faculty should receive fair pay, access to benefits, and be converted into full time positions.

It’s time for job security, fair pay, and benefits for contract faculty! #fairness4CF #BrockU #CdnPSE #OnPSE #OnLAB #OnPOLI
makeitfair.caut.ca