Last Update: Oct 23, 2023
Welcome to Humber!
As a partial-load professor (teaching more than 6 hours per week, and up to 12 hours per week), you are a member of the academic bargaining unit and are covered by the Academic Employees Collective Agreement. This Agreement extends to all partial-load and full-time faculty throughout all 24 Ontario colleges. The current 3-year collective agreement will expire on September 30, 2024.
As a member of this bargaining unit, you receive the salary, benefits and professional conditions that have been negotiated by the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union (OPSEU), on your behalf. As such, union dues are automatically deducted from your pay. Even so, you are not a member of our Local (Humber Faculty Union, OPSEU local 562) until you have signed your membership card.
Membership into our local is free and comes with many advantages, including allowing you to have a voice during negotiations, and in the event of a strike, eligibility for strike benefits such as strike pay.
Membership Application Form
- OPSEU Electronic Membership Application Form (we are OPSEU Local # 562. Please provide a non-Humber email address)
Learn about your rights:
- NEW Collective Agreement 2021-2024 (official version)
- Benefits Booklet for Partial-Load Faculty (2022)
- NEW How to assert your Priority Hiring Rights (2023)
- NEW Learn about Service Credits (2023) – PDF
- NEW Learn about Service Credits (2023) – Video
- Partial-Load Faculty Entitlements (CA 2017-2021)
- Joining the CAAT Pension Plan (2017)
- List of Local 562 stewards, officers and committee representatives
- Union Basics – OPSEU
- Calculation for Step (Pay) Increases
- NEW Retroactive payment tables 2023
Please subscribe to our mailing list (private non-Humber email address only) to receive updates and reminders on issues that concern all faculty at Humber College.
Lastly, I would like to invite you into our office to review your initial salary calculation. One of our officers would be happy to go over the calculation with you, and answer any other questions you may have.
Questions? Here’s how you can reach us:
- In person:
- North Campus: F105, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Lakeshore Campus: A116A, Tuesdays only 9 am – 4 pm
- by phone: 416-675-6622 ext. 4007
- by email: info@opseu562.org (general inquiries)
We wish you the best of luck at Humber College! We’re here to support you, so don’t hesitate to get in touch.