Fair Employment Week Event on Contract Academic Staff
Photo above (from left to right): Jeff Noonan (WUFA President), Frankie Cachon (Sessional Director), John Cappucci (Chair of Sessional Cttee)
October 25, 2017
Each year the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and its member associations join with a coalition of unions and activists across North America to organize a week-long series of events highlighting fair treatment of all contract academic staff - Fair Employment Week (Oct. 23rd – 27th, 2017).
Today members of WUFA's Sessional Committee hosted a MAKE IT FAIR: A CAUT Fair Employment Week Event booth in the CAW Centre between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Fair Trade Coffee and Cake was provided. There was a great turnout and positive feedback from students. Canadian universities’ growing dependency on limited term and contract faculty - and the precarious conditions of this employment- was the subject of today's event.
An increasing number of teachers at Canada’s colleges and universities are trapped in precarious contract and part-time work. Contract work has quietly gone from a short-term stepping stone to a career-long condition. Many earn less than a living wage.
For more information about CAUT’s Fair Employment Week Visit: http://makeitfair.caut.ca/ join the campaign and https://www.caut.ca/bulletin/2017/10/faces-precarity .
