Oct 19 – 23. Every year during the third week of October, CAUT spearheads a national week-long campaign on Fair Employment in the post-secondary sector. This week focuses on the precarious employment of contract faculty members and the structural challenges they face.
MRFA’s Planned Activities
- Panel Discussion, October 22nd in the IDEAS lounge (11:30-12:30 on the 22nd)
- Advocacy Matters newsletter (link to be added)
- Classroom outreach to raise awareness of Precarious (exploitative) employment practices in Post-Secondary Education
- “Share your experiences” survey launch to collect qualitative insights into how precarity impacts contract faculty members, for use in future rounds of bargaining to make the reality of the issues concrete and meaningful
More information will be posted here as it is available