Canadian Part-Timers Seek Union Rights
by Pauline Tama An English teacher at Algonquin College is leading Ontario’s 17,000 part-time and temporary college workers in a fight to win the same rights as their full-time unionized colleagues. Roger Couvrette is expected to meet with Universities and Colleges Minister Chris Bentley next week to demand the Ontario government repeal a law that excludes part-time college teachers and support staff from collective bargaining. Mr. Couvrette is president of the newly formed Organization of Part-time and Sessional Employees of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, which is organizing the largest union membership drive ever seen at the province’s […]
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