A Short History of Bargaining

by Ron Golemba, former Local 558 Chief Steward, long time CAAT-A union activist, and a member of the 1987, 1989, 1991 bargaining teams.

College faculty have had a consistent bargaining agenda for almost five decades: equity, fair compensation and reasonable control over the work that we do. But it’s never a straight line forward. In recent years, the landscape of post-secondary education has changed dramatically with new digital technologies, creeping privatization, and historically unprecedented reliance on non-unionized precarious faculty. In the face of system-wide attacks, we have to fight like never before to protect quality faculty jobs and quality college education.

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