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The Canadian Association of University Teachers represents 72,000 academic and general staff at 125 universities and colleges across Canada.

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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
🚨BREAKING🚨 Important update on #UofTcensure @censureutoronto #AzarovaAffair 🧵 (1/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
CAUT Council has voted to invoke censure against the UofT for its failure to resolve concerns regarding academic freedom stemming from the aborted hiring of Dr. Azarova.
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 months
CAUT calls for B.C. minister’s resignation over political interference
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
And it's unanimous--CAUT's 91st Council has lifted the censure against @UofT w/recognition of actions taken, including new language in uni policy to prevent donor influence. Huge kudos @utfaculty @censureutoronto +CAUT members for mobilizing to achieve this remarkable victory!
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
9 months
The Canadian Association of University Teachers expresses its shock and profound grief over the violent attack on a professor and two students at the University of Waterloo yesterday. Read our full statement:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
11 months
CAUT and its members out on the picket lines at Parliament Hill to support the @psac_afpc workers fighting for a fair deal. #PSACStrike #CdnPoli #CanLab
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Today is the first ever faculty strike in Alberta. Read @CUEfacultyassoc media release: . "In a ballot last November, 90 per cent of CUEFA members who voted backed a strike mandate, with 95 per cent of the association's members participating in the vote."
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Ontario Auditor General Report: CAUT calls for the immediate resignation of Laurentian U President & all senior admins. “Today’s report is a damning indictment of Laurentian University’s administration,” says CAUT Executive Director David Robinson. #CdnPSE
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Academic workers are standing strong for fair working conditions and quality post-secondary education! We stand in solidarity with with our colleagues 💪 @AcadiaFaculty @UOITFA @ULFAssociation as they strike or get ready for job action. #cdnpse #highereducation
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
📢Academic staff across Canada stand in solidarity ❤️with @ULFAssociation , @UOITFA , and @AcadiaFaculty who are on strike 📣 fighting for a fair deal 💪 #UnionStrong #ULFAStrike #UOITFAcares #AUFAStrike2022
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
#InSolidarity with Acadia University Faculty Association - @AcadiaFaculty began a strike today after negotiations for "a fair collective agreement with Acadia’s Board of Governors failed." #UnionStrong - Read their full press release here: #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
“The decision to censure was not taken lightly. It is a measure of last resort used only when we are faced with serious violations of academic freedom and other principles that are fundamental to higher education,” says CAUT ED David Robinson.
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 month
First faculty strike in @mcgillu history: The Canadian Association of University Teachers stands in full #solidarity with newly certified Association of McGill Professors of Law @AMPL_AMPD . #polqc
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
This is a major victory for #academicfreedom , and for everyone who worked tirelessly to let their colleagues know about the censure and to uphold and respect its conditions. #uoftcensure (2/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Finally thank you to every single one of you who cancelled events, refused appointments and honours, and otherwise took action to defend academic freedom. Collective action works👏, and this wouldn't have been possible without all of your efforts. #uoftcensure (9/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Solidarity with @UMFA_FAUM today as they continue to strike fair wages and free bargaining. #umfa2021 #mbpoli
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
We were glad to hear last night that the federal government is ready to ready to provide funding to #SaveLaurentian . The time to act is now. RT if you agree! @melaniejoly @MonaFortier @lufappul
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
Congratulations @MUNFaculty !
@MUNFaculty
MUNFA
1 year
MUNFA President's update: MUNFA Wins Tentative Agreement! #FairDealAtMUN
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
6 years
A recent arbitration between the RFA and @RyersonU will set a significant precedent for the academic staff across the country. Student’s course survey can't be used to measure teaching effectiveness for promotion or tenure. #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
For more information on what censure entails:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Tell the Manitoba govt it must stop interfering with free collective bargaining between @umanitoba and @UMFA_FAUM and putting the future of public education in Manitoba in jeopardy. @MOFA_FAPUM #umfa2021 #mbpoli
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
"The moral panic over 'cancel culture' is overblown. The real danger to academic freedom is conservative govts using this as a pretext to mandate false 'neutrality' on unis or shifting resources away fr humanities and soc sciences."
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Emergency debate in #HoC on Laurentian University tonight. Thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for bringing it forward and to all showing support for #LaurentianUniversity #FundLU #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Did a University of Toronto Donor Block the Hiring of a Scholar for Her Writing on Palestine? #UofTcensure
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
... including explicitly extending academic freedom protections to academic managerial positions and developing policies that prohibit donor interference in internal academic affairs. (6/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
For those who missed it, here's a summary of what the #uoftcensure is: (3/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
2022 is shaping up to be historic year for the academic union movement! @AcadiaFaculty @ULFAssociation & @UOITFA all on strike, with support from across Canada 🇨🇦 Through collective action we assure quality education, fair working conditions+ #academicfreedom into the future!
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
The University has presented Dr. Azarova with an offer of employment that, amongst other things, included protections for academic freedom equivalent to that enjoyed by academic staff members of the @utfaculty . After careful consideration, Dr. Azarova has declined the offer.(4/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
6 years
"The real crisis on university campuses is the manner in which the increased use of part-time, adjunct instructors has curtailed the function of scholars to speak freely, offer unpopular truths, and criticize power." #cdnpse #academicfreedom
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
“If they are planning to return to in-person instruction, institutions have an obligation to consider all reasonable measures they can take to reduce the risk.” #cdnpse #safereturn
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
On Monday 110 academic staff and 69 programs were cut at Laurentian University. The provincial and federal governments must step up and #SaveLaurentian . Follow the link for actions you can take right now to support students and staff: @lufappul @OurSudbury
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CAUT
3 years
What is the #uoftcensure ? Read the thread to learn more about what it is, why it was imposed on the University of Toronto and what you can do! #censureuoft #AzarovaAffair @censureutoronto
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CAUT
3 years
The programs under threat of being cut at Laurentian University include Indigenous studies, which are key to reconciliation as per the #TRC Call to Action 16 #SaveLaurentian #FundLU
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CAUT
3 years
CAUT member associations across the country are standing up for Laurentian and share this message of solidarity with @lufappul members. #SaveOurSudbury #FundLU
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CAUT
3 years
The Cdn Judicial Council has announced a review of the actions of Justice D.E. Spiro after complaints were filed relating to his alleged interference in the appointment of a Director of the International Human Rights Program at the U. of Toronto. 1/3
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
CAUT out on the picket lines in #solidarity to support @cbufa
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
As strike action nears the end of three weeks @UMFA_FAUM -- solidarity and support from across the country keeps growing! CAUT Defence Fund and Executive Committee members will be walking the picket line tomorrow! #worthfightingfor #PSE
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
CAUT condemns the legislation introduced today by the Ontario government that will force a contract on @CUPEOntario ’s 55,000 education workers and prevent a legal strike that was to start Friday. Read our full statement:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
6 years
We think libraries need librarians, but Mount Allison U. disagrees. Tell Provost Jeff Ollerhead that axing the position of top librarian is unproductive and in no one's best interest. Tweet @MountAllison and email Jeff at "provost @mta .ca" More info here:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
We want to thank those who have worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the censure and helped academics across the country take action to respect and uphold it. Especially everyone at @censureuoft ! 🙏 #uoftcensure (8/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Today's decision is a huge win for students, researchers, and the publicly-funded PSE system. It re-affirmed the SC's approach to #fairdealing , confirming it’s in the public interest that students to be able to access education materials. Follow us for updates! @CFSFCEE
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Supreme Court of Canada
3 years
The Supreme Court rules that a copyright tariff was not enforceable against York University. Read our plain-language summary here: #copyright #cdnlaw
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CAUT
3 years
Thank you🙏 @iamcelinacc for your solidarity and defending academic freedom on our campuses. We have to keep up the pressure! #UofTcensure
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Celina Caesar (like the salad)-Chavannes (sh-van)
3 years
I have cancelled this event in support of @CAUT_ACPPU 's decision to censure @UofT . I add my name to the list of Black Intellectuals and students calling on others to do the same. If the university is committed to #equity , it will hold its leadership accountable.
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
4 years
The correct answer is “no.”
@RaterCognition
Dr. Andrea Gingerich
4 years
UNBC Strike Day 11: Would you sign a collective agreement that surrendered a collegial decision-making process for tenure and promotion and replaced it with an administrative decision? Beware precedents set at small universities. #UNBCFAStrong
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
While the principal condition of the censure (re-offering Dr. Azarova the position) has been met, the censure cannot be fully ended until the University resolves all the issues in the case... (5/9)
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
An estimated one-in-three academic staff are contract workers. It is time to expand Statistic Canada’s University & College Academic Staff System #UCASS to include contract workers, colleges, & more equity indicators. Sign this petition: #fairness4CF
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
❤️ Thank you everyone who joined our virtual rally in support of @ULFAssociation & @AcadiaFaculty members. 📢 We call on the administrations of these universities to return to the bargaining table! 💪 📣 #ulfastrike #AUFAStrike2022 #worthfightingfor
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Thank you to @ayca_cu , co-director @LSEHumanRights , for cancelling her talk this summer because of #UofTcensure . Together we will uphold academic freedom in #cdnpse .
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Post-secondary education is a key economic driver and helps us weather crises and build up our society. Now more than ever we need to support our colleges and universities. @basmith @cafaab #stopPSEcuts #abpoli #cdnpse
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CAUT
2 months
Strike at MSVU - CAUT stands in full #solidarity with the Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association @msvufa and urges the senior leadership at @MSVU_Halifax to ensure a fair and equitable settlement. #supportMSVUFA
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Thank you for respecting the #UofTcensure ! Cancelling, moving, or postponing these events is difficult, but together we can send a strong message that @UofT must respect #academicfreedom . #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
We stand in solidarity with @lufappul in their call for accountability and for the resignation of those responsible for the financial crisis at Laurentian. #SaveLaurentian #FundLU #cdnpse
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OCUFA
3 years
Laurentian’s senior leadership and Minister of Colleges and Universities should step down in wake of financial crisis - @lufappul @ocufa #OnPSE #OnPoli #OnLab #FundLU
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
Happy to see the federal government follow through on their promise to remove interest on student loans. This is the first step of many needed to make education affordable for all. Post-secondary education is fundamental to our economy and democracy. #cdnpoli #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
"While these two actions might seem unrelated ... they share a critical element. In both cases, the practices of collegial governance were bypassed, ignored, or just trampled over." @basmith #cdnpse #SaveLaurentian #UofTcensure
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
5 months
All academic staff deserve fair compensation for teaching, research, and service. Join the call for the fair treatment of contract academic staff. #MakeItFair
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
"There is an entire generation of trained researchers to whom we have granted PhDs but failed to provide jobs that allow them to conduct research." - David Robinson, CAUT Executive Director #cdnpse #ucass #cdnpoli
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
"The ferocity of employer attacks on our working conditions in the postsecondary education sector has been aided and abetted by equally vicious actions taken against the system itself by provincial governments." - CAUT president Brenda Austin-Smith #CdnPSE
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
How do you show💖for academic staff? With fair salaries, sustainable work loads, collegial governance + equity + academic freedom! CAUT-ACPPU stands in solidarity on the picket line with @ULFAssociation @UOITFA @AcadiaFaculty #UnionStrong
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
Today we remember the 14 women who were murdered at Polytechnique Montreal 33 years ago. In their honour, we recommit to ending gender-based violence in our communities.
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
6 years
Well folks, science matters and science is back! Thanks to @Bill_Morneau and @ScienceMin #Budget2018 #wegotscienceright
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Action you can take to uphold the censure @UofT -- sign the petition to ask Canada's former Governor General to cancel her upcoming speaking engagement at the University of Toronto! #academicfreedom #UofTcensure
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The University of Toronto Law Union
3 years
We endorse and encourage all to sign-on to this letter requesting the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean respect CAUT's censure of U of T:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
CAUT is calling on the federal government to remove publicly-funded institutions from the CCAA. You can send a letter to @JustinTrudeau now: @CanadianLabour #SaveLaurentian @lufappul @OurSudbury
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
CAUT-ACPPU 91st Council off and running! Inspiring remarks from @UMFA_FAUM 's Orvie Dingwall on the fight in Manitoba for free and fair collective bargaining, taking on the University and the province! @MOFA_FAPUM #PSE
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CAUT
3 years
"The termination of four senior librarians and elimination of two other library positions at OCAD University raises red flags that the University’s administration is not respecting principles of collegial governance...." #cdnpse #canlab
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
5 months
At least one third of academic staff at Canadian universities and colleges are employed on short term-contracts. Join us in calling for the fair treatment of contract academic staff. #MakeItFair
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CAUT
3 years
This is phenomenal! Our members inspire us. Thank you to everyone who has taken the pledge and who has committed themselves not to accept appointments, speaking engagements, or distinctions and honours from the @UofT . #censureUofT #UofTcensure
@censureutoronto
Censure UofT
3 years
Over 1000 international scholars have pledged to respect the #UofTcensure ! Help us build this movement for justice. Please share the🧵below 👇 🙏🙏🙏 #WEareUofT #uoftscandal @IBJIYONGI @b_momani @MargaretAtwood @NaomiAKlein @stevesalaita @Pam_Palmater
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CAUT
11 months
CAUT voted unanimously to support striking members of @psac_afpc . During its 94th Council meeting, CAUT member associations passed an emergency motion to stand with PSAC workers seeking fair working conditions and fair pay. Read more:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Wonderful to hear from academic staff across the country about what can be done to #SaveLaurentian . Thank you @honorbrabazon @reubenroth @nadiav @tashakwe @AlanSearslefty and Dr. Jennifer Johnson for speaking in support of LU. @lufappul @FundLU
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
8 days
The value of a graduate scholarship has not increased in 20 years. Inflation has eroded their value and early career researchers are struggling. We need to change this. We all do better when we all do better. #Coalition4CdnResearch #cdnpoli
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
“A search process has already been conducted that, following a review of 160 applicants, unanimously selected Dr. Azarova. [...] Re-offering the job to Dr. Azarova in good faith is necessary for resolving the matter.” #UofTcensure #censureUofT #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
4 years
Today is our annual day of action for contract academic staff. Reliance on precarious work is bad for everybody. working conditions are students’ learning conditions. Use our tool to contact your MP and ask for support for #cdnpse . #MakeitFair #Fairness4CF
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CAUT
2 years
"Righteous anger at threats to research, teaching, and service often drives our job actions. Strikes are stressful, hard things to endure, and the companionship of the line—whether virtual or physical—is the key outcome, whatever else we have won."
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
"The Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities, Ross Romano, and five senior administrators from Laurentian University should resign for their roles in creating the financial crisis that has devastated this northern Ontario university." @lufappul
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
6 years
"Our public universities and colleges have been taken over by a managerial class staffed by neoliberal bean-counting austerity-fetishizing ideologues". @AcadiaFaculty Pres. Stephen Ahern on winning a "damn good package" + the need to fight power with countervailing power. #cdnpse
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
CAUT out supporting education workers and calling out Ontario’s all-out assault on workers’ rights. #canlab #IStandWithCUPE
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Thank you @cupe3902 for supporting the #UofTcensure . We need everyone to respect the censure to send a strong message to @UofT !
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
4 years
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
1 year
At least one third of academic staff at Canadian universities and colleges are employed on short term-contracts. Join us in calling for the fair treatment of contract academic staff. #MakeItFair #Fairness4CAS
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
5 months
Academic freedom, like all expressive freedoms, is particularly vulnerable during periods of war, conflict, and social unrest. Read the full statement on academic freedom in times of conflict:
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Faculty's working conditions are students' learning conditions! 👏 #FairEmploymentWeek #MakeItFair
@UOITFA
UOIT Faculty
2 years
We are out for Fair Employment Week at @the_OTSU 's Fall Fest talking to students about the connection between their learning conditions and faculty working conditions! We are all on the same page about prioritizing quality education @ontariotech_u #supportOTUfaculty #MakeItFair
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
3 years
Heartbreaking stories and a deep sense of betrayal @OurSudbury townhall. Laurentian unilaterally cutting ties with the federated institutions. Huge loss esp. for studies in French and Indigenous languages. Govts need to step up and #FundLU . @lufappul
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Vice-president @PeterSMcInnis joined the flying picket today in support of @UMFA_FAUM strike! We continue to support UMFA's fight for an offer that would address recruitment and retention issues and enhance the quality of education for students at @umanitoba ! #umfa2021 #mbpoli
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@CAUT_ACPPU
CAUT
2 years
Thank you Dr. Brenda Austin-Smith for your inspired, steady leadership through the pandemic, and for raising your voice on behalf of academic staff, in the face of attacks on the working conditions of academic staff throughout Canada. 👋 @basmith 👋 #CAUTCouncil #CanLab #CdnPSE
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