{"id":9899,"date":"2018-01-30T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2018-01-31T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:33:30","slug":"strong-strike-mandate-at-algoma-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/30\/strong-strike-mandate-at-algoma-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Strike Mandate at Algoma University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jan 30, 2018 @ 08:31<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>Faculty at Algoma University have voted 84% in favour of a strike mandate, and strongly in support of their bargaining team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaculty at Algoma have sent a clear message to the Board of Governors at Algoma University,\u201d said Henry Hornstein, President of the faculty union.\u00a0 \u201cThey are ready to defend the academic integrity of the university through job action if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bargaining broke down last December 15<sup>th<\/sup> after the employer tabled proposals with significant concessionary demands, including increased teaching loads, the creation of a teaching-only stream, and the reduction of academic oversight on program redundancy. The Board\u2019s proposals will also keep average salaries of faculty at Algoma at the bottom of Northern Ontario universities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese concessions would undermine the academic integrity of Algoma University by reducing the time faculty would have to pursue research and scholarship, and by compromising academic governance,\u201d explained Hornstein. \u201cThese proposals threaten the future of Algoma,\u201d said Hornstein.\u00a0 \u201cThey are totally inconsistent with our academic mission to provide research-based teaching and learning opportunities for our students. And they will make it impossible to attract and retain quality faculty for our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 30, 2018 @ 08:31 Faculty at Algoma University have voted 84% in favour of a strike mandate, and strongly in support of their bargaining team. &nbsp; \u201cFaculty at Algoma have sent a clear message to the Board of Governors at Algoma University,\u201d said Henry Hornstein, President of the faculty union.\u00a0 \u201cThey are ready to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1217],"class_list":["post-9899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-algoma-university"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 05:49:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9900,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}