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<\/a>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to try and bargain without knowing how much money was on the table,\u201d says Yutani. \u201cAnd the only option that seemed reasonable at that time was for us to refer bargaining to arbitration. So we did that. And the employer, unsurprisingly, basically claimed that we were bargaining in bad faith, which means that we weren\u2019t willing to negotiate on what they offered. Our argument to that is: we can\u2019t negotiate with what they offered because it doesn\u2019t include anything monetary… If we\u2019re going to give up rights for something or anything, we need to know what we\u2019re going to gain, whether that\u2019s money or a trade-off in rights, but that\u2019s not what their package looked like.\u201d (Camosun College declined to be interviewed for this story.)<\/p>\n
Yutani says that the college filed a complaint against the CCFA over bad faith bargaining, and the CCFA then filed a counterclaim of bad faith against the college. As of the time of writing this story, the CCFA had received the college\u2019s response to its counterclaim and had until August 28 (after print time for this issue) to submit its response.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that point in time, the labour board will take basically both sides of the stories and decide how they\u2019re going to rule,\u201d she says. \u201cIf they rule that there was a bad faith component, depending on which party\u2014and sometimes there can be on both parties, that\u2019s not unheard of, either\u2014then they instruct us in what we do next, whether that\u2019s returning to the bargaining table to negotiate, going to mediation, or proceeding to arbitration. So basically, we\u2019ll have a decision at some point, presumably in September, [about] what we\u2019re supposed to do next.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among the priorities for the CCFA are a stronger focus and commitment on Indigenization from the college, issues around job security, wages and benefits, and working conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think what\u2019s really important for students to know is that when your instructor\u2019s working conditions are good, your learning conditions will be better,\u201d says Yutani. \u201cWhen the instructor\u2019s needs are met, then they\u2019re better able to show up and meet students\u2019 needs. So we just want to improve our members\u2019 working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CCFA also wants the college to be more open about their decision-making processes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, Nexus<\/i> has followed this journey of this whole past year and a half, where the college made so many decisions, sometimes very secretively, and they negatively affected students, and they\u2019re still negatively affecting students,\u201d says Yutani. \u201cWe\u2019ve got courses and programs that have fewer or cancelled sections. There\u2019s a lot less opportunity for students. And we\u2019re still unable to tell whether or not they did that truly on the basis of the financial picture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yutani says that the answers to a lot of the problems between the two organizations comes down to transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I look back at the last year, if I were to just say the entire, maybe two years… maybe the solutions would be if we just had more transparency and accountability across the board, I think we could solve a lot of the problems and challenges together that we face,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd until some external force demands that, I think we\u2019re going to continue having these sorts of issues and be in these tensions for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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