Last May, Eric Durling (president, center in photo) and Sheila Das (vice-president internal, photo credit) attended this great event with over 500 participants in higher education — students, Cegep professors, university professors, and contract teachers — from across Quebec to discuss topics essential to higher education
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News Bulletin 3, October 20, 2017
National Health and Safety Week: Prevention Oct 15 to 21 2017 is National Health and Safety Week (http://semainesst.org/). The focus this year is on prevention. In the context of health and safety, prevention is a daily challenge in a more and more
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Fair Trade Coffee The VCTA Executive would like to assure all members that as a union who cares deeply about fair treatment of employees, we have long offered teachers fair trade coffee for your drinking pleasure in both lounges. Enjoy your
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Education is always threatened by latent utilitarianism http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/506633/les-cegeps-sont-encore-menaces-par-ceux-qui-veulent-les-soumettre-aux-besoins-du-marche-du-travail-selon-guy-rocher PQ proposal: If elected, cut budgets to English CEGEPs http://globalnews.ca/news/3719826/pq-proposal-if-elected-cut-budgets-to-english-cegeps/
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Welcome Back The VCTA Executive would like to welcome teachers back to Vanier for the 2017-18 academic year. We hope that you all had a pleasant and relaxing summer. Welcome Back BBQ Unfortunately, this fall, we will not be having
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Tract Marche Science Jour Terre
Continue readingVanier’s Colour Palette and Teachers’ Offices
Vanier’s Colour Palette and Teachers’ Offices A colour palette has been determined by the College for the entire campus, including teachers’ offices. The VCTA has outlined some issues. Branding: The dominant choice of Vanier’s brand colours, grey and red, are
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Contractual Obligations II: Continuing Education Hourly Pay Hourly paid continuing education teachers also have contractual obligations that they can find in the definition of an hourly paid teacher. (Article 1-2:11 and 1-2:12 of the Fneeq Collective Agreement). Essentially they are
Continue readingNew money injected into education in election year
http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/27/plus-de-600-millions-supplementaires-en-education_n_15634416.html
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