OCADFA Bargaining Team Videos
We had seven pillars in our bargaining mandate in the last round, and we achieved gains in all of them. In this video series the members of the Bargaining Team all discuss one or two accomplishments, whilst acknowledging that we have much more to work towards as we begin the next round.
This series was shot this past spring by Alex Williams, a multiple award-winning’ documentary film-maker and OCADU sessional instructor, sound Recording by OCADFA board member and Grievance co-chair Gerald Grison, a multidisciplinary artist and Integrated Media Technician in Studio Services and supported by Integrated Media students Jane Qin and Paul Song.
We are very proud of the work of everyone in front and behind the cameras on this project and excited to share this with the OCADFA membership, the university at large, and our friends and supporters in labour and the community.
Click on any of the images below to view the video!
On the language around On-Boarding and Teaching Stream course load production for Studio Faculty.
“When I started Sessional rates were the lowest in the province, now our pay is in the centre of the pack, I’m proud of that.”
On fighting for better rights for those with disabilities through a Desire Based Framework.
On how this MoA added transparency to the three level Sessional pay scale.
“It was important to me that the Faculty of Art would be teaching 6 courses as their workload as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had been teaching for some time.”
Getting Chair GPD language into the MoA will have immediate and long term positive impact for faculty moving into and out of the role knowing that it’s a defined position in the MoA.
Min Sook Lee, OCADFA President
“We made sure that every single labour category at OCADFA saw improvements in their working conditions.”
Graeme Reniers, OCADFA Executive Director
On how there were 33 total changes to MoA, making this the most successful in OCADFA history.