OPSEU Local 242
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Twitter entity of OPSEU Local 242 — representing Professors, Counsellors and Librarians at Niagara College — @opseulocal242
Joined March 2014
We stand in solidarity with our CAAT-S Part-Time colleagues. Well done in obtaining a strike mandate. https://t.co/pZ97Oe3bGu
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The results are in! This week, part-time support staff took a massive step forward in holding our first ever strike vote, and 64% of us have voted “YES”! Today, part-time college support staff have...
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All of this is happening against a backdrop of chronic underfunding and program cuts. Ontario’s students and faculty deserve a government that values and invests in post-secondary education — not one that undermines it. Ontario can and must do better. #OntarioPSE #HigherEd
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In 2019, the government’s Student Choice Initiative forced many of these same student services to fight for survival by making fees “optional.” The courts struck it down for overstepping authority — but Bill 33 brings it back through new legislation.
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Student voices are essential. This legislation undermines the very systems that allow students to fund and shape the supports they rely on most. Campus life depends on their right to build inclusive, supportive communities — silencing those voices only deepens the harm.
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Under Bill 33, the Ontario government could strip students of that power, threatening vital campus services and democratic decision-making.
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RT @Libs4Canada: Consetoga College President Tibbits grilled by Federal MPs about his $603,000 salary amidst layoffs after Feds slash inter…
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What jobs was this supposedly training people for???
Ford government seeking money back from defunct Skills Development Fund recipient with ties to Drake, which received more than $3 million before shuttering.
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I don't know the amount, but they were on the Skills Development Fund approved projects:
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#StarExclusive: Outsource, automate and merge? Reports reveal what kind of Ontario college job losses and program cuts could be on the line.
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The province provided money for third-party efficiency and accountability assessments for 10 of 24 public colleges, surfacing amid a staff strike.
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hmmm - Career Colleges are not allowed to apply directly... but there are definitely some of these colleges promoting that they have SDF funding.
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Today, Ontario is investing $115 million with its new Skills Development Fund to align workers with quality jobs and jumpstart the province's economic recovery.
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How Doug Ford's government works: 1) Monte McNaughton starts Skills Development Fund 2) Wife gets millions from SDF 3) Monte quits and Piccini takes over SDF 4) Wife moves to Career Colleges Ontario 5) Piccini's wife becomes lobbyist for CCO 6) CCO members get millions from SDF
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Oh - and Monte McNaughton's wife (tied to $2M in Skills Development Funds for Dentacloud) is now the Executive Director at Career Colleges Ontario... so, in summary: David Piccini's wife is the lobbyist for Monte McNaughton's wife in order to get funding from David Piccini!!!
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A great thread here. The connections between the Ford government and private colleges have already been well-established. This is all happening while public colleges are being starved of funding, and thousands upon thousands are being laid off. Privatization out in the open.
In addition to the man beside David Piccini getting $7.5M in SDF money, Piccini's wife (also pictured) is a lobbyist that represents Career Colleges Ontario - and several of the private trade schools that are members of Career Colleges Ontario received SDF money as well.
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Hello Ontario: help these amazing reporters expose every last bit of the Ford Government’s Skills Development Fund scandal
If you have something the public should know about the Skills Development Fund, get in touch. Jack@thetrillium.ca Charlie@thetrillium.ca
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The Trillium has absolutely CRUSHED this story. Independent media needs to be supported. Our legacy media and journalists are not meeting the moment.
If you have something the public should know about the Skills Development Fund, get in touch. Jack@thetrillium.ca Charlie@thetrillium.ca
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John Tibbits was grilled on everything from Conestoga College's budget surpluses to his $600,000 salary, students in "slumlord housing" and living off food banks, and the time he called another college president "a whore." https://t.co/4mxbgxSvBa
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John Tibbits of Conestoga bats down questions on budget surpluses, housing conditions of students and his crude comments about another president.
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The five best-paid college presidents in Ontario made an average of $492,000 last year...,” added Kesley. “College presidents have a mandate to protect the student experience, so what are they doing to help end this strike?” https://t.co/dExHNO5kpO
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – Earlier today, the Ontario full-time college support staff bargaining team, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO, re-engaged negotiations with the College Employer Council...
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