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Ontario College Faculty are 15,000 professors, counsellors, librarians and instructors. We are part of OPSEU/SEFPO.

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
NUCAUT President Robin Whitaker speaking to a CLC resolution on precarious work, highlighting the realities of contract academic staff and “invisible job cuts” caused by public underfunding at the @canadianlabour.bsky.social's Constitutional Convention #CLC2026 #CTC2026
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A new special edition of the CAUT Journal guest co-edited by @profsavage.bsky.social & Susan Spronk all about organizing for power in Canada’s university sector is now online! Read it at journal.caut.ca
Illustration of blank book spines facing out on two shelves with one open book in the middle of the lower shelf. Text that reads "New special issue. Organizing for power in Canada's university sector: lessons for academic staff associations. Read at journal.caut.ca"
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ontario students rally at Queen’s Park to protest OSAP changes
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Ontario students protest OSAP changes at Queen's Park
Hundreds of students are expected to gather outside Queen’s Park Wednesday to protest the Ontario government’s changes to its student loan program.
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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Students across the province are protesting recent changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) — the post-secondary financial aid system will go from a majority grant structure to a majority loan structure in the new school year. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities': Students stage mass protest over Ford government’s OSAP cuts | CBC News
Students across the province are protesting recent changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) — the post-secondary financial aid system will go from a majority grant structure to a major...
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Happening now: Students arriving at Queen’s Park for a “Hands Off Our Education” protest against OSAP changes and tuition fee increases. #OnPoli
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ontario is lowering OSAP so students only receive 25% of funding through grants. 48% of Canadian students report struggling with the cost of tuition. In Ontario, that number jumps to 59%. Federal grants are also on the chopping block. Student support should be increasing, not decreasing.
Map of Canada with the province of Ontario highlighted. Text that reads "Recent data shows 59% of Ontario students and their families have difficulty paying tuition fees. Canadian average: 48%"
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Ontario College Faculty stand in solidarity with LUFA members! #solidarity
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StFXAUT @stfxaut.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Faculty, academic librarians, and counsellors represented by @lufappul.bsky.social have been on strike since Monday, January 19th. @stfxaut.bsky.social is pleased to stand with our LUFA colleagues by making a donation of $1000 to support their efforts to achieve a fair and equitable agreement.
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LUFAPPUL @lufappul.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Yesterday’s BBQ with the Pit Crew 🌭 LUFA Strong! - Barbecue d’hier avec l’équipe Pit Crew 🌭 APPUL fort !
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LUFAPPUL @lufappul.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Last night the LU Nursing Students Association joined their faculty on the lines. Students and faculty united! - Hier soir, l'association des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'UL s'est jointe à leur faculté sur les piquets de grève. Étudiants et professeurs unis !
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LUFAPPUL @lufappul.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What are LUFA's priorities for a fair deal? (1) Pensions, (2) Compensation, and (3) Workload LUFA members want a deal that improves supports for students, boosts morale, and attracts and retain talent.
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LUFAPPUL @lufappul.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Together we will win a better, stronger university for all ✊ - Ensemble, nous construirons une université meilleure et plus forte pour tous ✊
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LUFAPPUL @lufappul.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Solidarity is in full force for LUFA's first day on strike! - La solidarité est au rendez-vous lors de la première journée de grève de l'APPUL !
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Members of @lufappul.bsky.social have taken to the picket lines following months of negotiations. LUFA members have endured years of instability and made extraordinary sacrifices following the university’s unprecedented use of the CCAA. Read more: www.caut.ca/news/laurent...
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Laurentian University academic staff on strike - CAUT
Members of LUFA have taken to the picket lines to achieve a fair contract, following months of negotiations.
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OCADFA @ocadfa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Faculty and academic staff are being asked to do more, with less. We all deserve better!
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SMUFU @smufu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We will never accept this template: corporatization of higher education: No to Nousferatu nationalpost.com/feature/how-...
nationalpost.com
How to run a university in Canada? Outsource it to this management consulting firm
Nous Group's template for getting out of the red has been adopted by major schools. Critics call it the corporatization of higher education.
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jwbrown556.bsky.social @jwbrown556.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Conestoga College President John Tibbits resigns after union pressure, OPSEU/SEFPO invites interim leadership to rebuild together www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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Conestoga College President John Tibbits resigns after union pressure, OPSEU/SEFPO invites interim leadership to rebuild together
Toronto, ON, Jan. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Faculty and support staff at Conestoga College are celebrating the start of a new chapter – after their...
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“This win belongs to every worker, student, and neighbour that has been devastated by John Tibbits’ destructive tenure,” said Leopold Koff, President of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 237, representing faculty. “Now the adults can sit down and talk.” www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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Conestoga College President John Tibbits resigns after union pressure, OPSEU/SEFPO invites interim leadership to rebuild together
Toronto, ON, Jan. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Faculty and support staff at Conestoga College are celebrating the start of a new chapter – after their...
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OCADFA @ocadfa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
OCAD U lags behind other universities in terms of working conditions, benefits & pay. That why Fair and Reasonable Compensation is at the heart of our negotiating plans. www.ocadfa.ca @ocufa.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
At a time when official statistics are under political pressure elsewhere, Canada has an opportunity & a responsibility to strengthen its own commitment to open, reliable labour relations data. Adam King & I explain why: theconversation.com/why-canada-n... #cdnpoli #canlab
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Why Canada needs better data on strikes, unions and other labour issues
Canada does a poor job of gathering labour relations information. In a period of rising inequality and renewed workplace conflict, stakeholders need better data.
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ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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-...
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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.
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ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
(1/4) While the Ontario government has announced new funding reviews, Ontario’s public universities continue to receive the lowest level of provincial funding in the country, and it is not close.
Stock image of rainbow wooden peg people overlayed with the title: "Flow Diagram between Major Field of Study and Occupation," an image of the Stats Canada diagram with text below: "2021 Census of Population Statistics Canada"
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Scholars at Risk’s most recent Free to Think report highlights the threats to academic freedom around the world, documenting 328 verified incidents of attacks on higher education in 49 countries and territories from July 2024 to June 2025. Learn more in the latest Bulletin: buff.ly/ucPlxWM
Text that reads “Top five countries for verified incidents” above the flags of the United States, Bangladesh, India, Palestine and Ukraine.
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ready to welcome delegates from across the country for the 99th Council Meeting. Prêts à accueillir des délégués de tout le pays pour la 99e Réunion de l’Assemblée du Conseil.
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Welcome to our newest member, the Association of McGill Library Academic Staff! Bienvenue à notre tout nouveau membre, l’Association du personnel académique des bibliothèques de McGill!
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Utterly shameful. It's time for this provincial government to acknowledge its responsibility and properly fund the post-secondary education sector. 👇👇
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CUPE 3912 @cupe3912.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
We 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
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ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
(1/4) The Government of Ontario has been interfering systemically and structurally with the Laurentian University Faculty Association’s free and fair collective bargaining rights.
Teal background with a white quote symbol at the top, followed by the words in white, bold text: "The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations and the Canadian Association of University Teachers are both supporting LUFA and will seek intervenor status in this charter challenge."

Below the text is an iPhone displaying the CTV News article: Faculty union at Laurentian to make a human rights challenge over pension plan bargaining by Darren MacDonald. Published November 17, 2025 at 12:45PM EST.Teal background with a white quote symbol at the top, followed by the words in white, bold text: "Bargaining belongs to us: not the government, not the courts." Below that in smaller white text the quote is attributed to: "Fabrice Colin, President of the Laurentian University Faculty Association."

Taking up the bottom two thirds of the frame, a tablet displays the Sudbury Star article: Laurentian union launches constitutional challenge as contract talks begin by Harold Carmichael. Published November 17, 2025.
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opseu556.bsky.social @opseu556.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
www.thestar.com/news/gta/geo...
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George Brown suspended hospitality programs here, but still runs them in Dubai. ‘That doesn’t make sense,’ say faculty
The international partnership was agreed to just before a provincial ban. The college said the overseas school “serves a different student market.”
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CUASA - Carleton University Academic Staff Association @cuasa.ca · 04/11/2025
University students are rallying against Bill 33. www.excal.on.ca/news/2025/11...
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Students rally for hands off their education - Excalibur
A recap of the YFS-coordinated Bill 33 press conference.
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Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"..suppressing teachers’ rights is exactly what the UCP intended to do...And if the UCP can take the rights away from 50,000 of them, then nobody’s safe." @acifa.bsky.social's @drmacd.bsky.social & CAFA's Lee Easton on why we must fight Bill 2. @caut.bsky.social edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: If the UCP can take away teachers' rights, no one is safe
But Bill 2 does far more than end a strike. It turns fifty-thousand Albertan teachers into second-class citizens.
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Union Jobs @unionjobs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) seeks a Development Operations Engineer, Data & Analytics Department to be based in Washington, DC [Headquarters]. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @afscme.bsky.social
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Join us next Wednesday, Oct. 22 for the #FairEmploymentWeek keynote! Register for the webinar now to hear Dr. Kendra Strauss discuss academic freedom and precarity. More information: www.caut.ca/event/a-disc...
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."
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Toronto & York Region Labour Council @labourcouncil.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Collect them all; Eject them all
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Doug Ford's privatization agenda is dismantling the Ontario college system. It's time to stand up for our public colleges! Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
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BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general
Ford government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new report
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Toronto & York Region Labour Council @labourcouncil.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Call the Premier to fund our schools and keep democratically elected trustees! Here is the sample phone script: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Toronto & York Region Labour Council @labourcouncil.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
At the OPSEU support rally today
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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Sounds familiar. Is this the same playbook used by the Dal BoG in the current labour dispute with @dalfaculty.bsky.social Dalhousie faculty members? What's the role of the NS govt? @keepdalstrong.bsky.social
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
“Why are they spending so much money to make the school beautiful...but not offering the very core, the purpose of what a community college is for?” Great article breaking down the manufactured crisis in the Ontario college system: www.thegrindmag.ca/the-manufact...
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The Manufactured Crisis in Ontario Colleges
Are college finances really so bad that huge cuts are needed, or is Doug Ford up to something else? Ben McCarthy, a college contract faculty worker and OPSEU member, breaks it down.
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The Ford government is dismantling the Ontario public college system. Defunding the system and funneling money into the Skills Development Fund endangers the province's economy and the futures of our students and communities. opseu.org/wp-content/u...
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Ottawa Labour Council @ottawalabour.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We were out early this morning visiting folks on the picket line @AlgonquinColleg An incredible display of solidarity amongst @OPSEU 416 members and supporters. The line(s) is set up there from 7:00am to 5:00pm Monday-Friday.
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Algonquin College’s special needs adult education program to close in 2026 share.google/s83kh3nyGRql...
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Parents protest closure of Algonquin College’s special needs adult education program
Joanne Mayne and her family joined dozens of people outside Algonquin College Thursday evening, protesting the closure of the college’s Academic Assistance for Adults with Developmental Disabilities p...
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Where is the money going -- the money that SHOULD be invested into public colleges? Shame on Doug Ford for prioritizing privatization and profits instead of investing in our communities!
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‘Shades of the Greenbelt’: questions raised about Ontario’s $2.5-billion private career training fund
An Ontario public-sector union is crying foul about grants given out from a multi-billion-dollar provincial fund for private career training, even as the province’s public colleges face unprecedented ...
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
More cuts announced at Conestoga College "to maintain the future financial viability of the college" while President John Tibbits' take home salary last year was $640,005.41, a 29% increase from 2023! #shame #saveourcolleges #conestogacollege
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Conestoga lays off faculty, cuts more programs on orientation week
Conestoga issued layoff notices to 11 fulltime faculty and two counsellors this week, and suspended fall programming in areas like manufacturing engineering, sustainable development engineering, build...
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Here's more coverage on yesterday's rally #saveourcolleges #belleville #loyalistcollege @opseusefpo.bsky.social
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Hundreds at Loyalist College rally in support of Ontario colleges
A crowd of several hundred people at Belleville’s Loyalist College on Wednesday vowed to fight cuts there and at other Ontario colleges.
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We had a great rally yesterday at @loyalistcollege.bsky.social - did you hear us? #belleville #loyalistcollege #saveourcolleges @opseusefpo.bsky.social
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Rally for the future of Loyalist College draws big crowd
With chants of 'our college, our future,' a large number of faculty, support staff, students and union support...
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We had a great rally at Loyalist College yesterday. Many faculty, support staff, students, labour allies, and community attended! <3 did you hear us @loyalistcollege.bsky.social ?
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Rally for the future of Loyalist College draws big crowd
With chants of 'our college, our future,' a large number of faculty, support staff, students and union support...
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CUASA - Carleton University Academic Staff Association @cuasa.ca · 29/08/2025
CUASA stands with @dalfaculty.bsky.social! 2nd DFA Lockout Rally - is happening at 6225 University Ave, Halifax - Outside Killam Library right now. See you there! @DalhousieU #keepdalstrong @TimHoustonNS
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Erica Fischer @ericafd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
@cupe3912.bsky.social stands in #solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong #cdnpse #canlab @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
CUPE 3912 members at a rally to support the DFA (Dalhousie Faculty Association.) Two of them are wearing white baseball caps that say DFA #KeepDalStrong and the other two wearing pink CUPE 3912 t-shirts and carrrying the CUPE 3912 flagMembers from different unions and associations with flags and signs in front of the Killam Library at a rally in support of the Dalhousie Faculty Association
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College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
On Sept 4th, "Button up" for our first coordinated action in the fight to SAVE OUR COLLEGES! It’s more than a button – it’s a chance to have thousands of conversations about the importance of fighting for public education. opseu.org/saveourcolle...
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