The Executive Director of Colleges Ontario, Don Sinclair, says that past OPSEU bargaining teams for full-time support staff have tried to eliminate jobs for part-timers. Is this true?
The history of bargaining in the colleges is that the colleges have always tried to drive down wages for the people doing support staff work. Because the colleges have been unable to cut wages for unionized full-time workers, their strategy has been to move the work to non-unionized part-time workers. This has meant fewer jobs for full-timers and unfair discrimination against part-timers who receive lower wages, no benefits, and no union protection. To keep good jobs in the colleges, OPSEU has worked to keep jobs in the full-time bargaining unit. At the same time and Mr. Sinclair fails to mention this OPSEU has repeatedly called on the colleges to recognize collective bargaining rights for part-timers. The colleges have refused, for the simple reason that they want to keep part-time wages and benefits as low as possible. Now that the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act recognizes that part-timers have a right to unionize, part-timers have the ability to negotiate better wages and workin
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