Dave Peters

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@Tod3sco You should remember, then vote NDP. The only party talking about massive reductions in gov't support for colleges, which triggered the colleges' $250K-a-year educrats' efforts to stiff YOUR teachers. Try to remember: Your education is only as good as the people teaching you.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@657Faculty "No option" after sitting on her hands for five weeks and saying NOTHING about her beloved $250K educrats refusing to bargain. And when their Hail Mary pass was destroyed by the striking teachers, THEN Wynne and her PC-lite crew "have no option."

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@rockdoc82 @SylviaJonesMPP @OntarioNDP I'm a partial-load teacher and I make about $17 an hour because I spend 60 hours a week grading papers, meeting students, and preparing class materials. I don't know from one semester to the next if I even have a job. Saying I "have it good" demonstrates startling ignorance.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@Tastic1 @SylviaJonesMPP @OntarioNDP Wow. Ms. Wynne and Ms. Matthews are "owned by the unions" after forcing an end to labour action by a union with massive worker and public support, and saying "both sides are at fault" when only the colleges refused to bargain in good faith Try thinking about things for a change.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@GaryWight6 @SylviaJonesMPP @OntarioNDP A subject that came up on the line, but we thought July 31 would be better because it would ensure students knew in advance not to send tuition cheques to pay the inflated salaries of the $250K educrats who are systematically destroying Ontario colleges.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@karenatcmg @Kathleen_Wynne Ms. Wynne is representing her main constituency, the $250K-per-year educrats who run the colleges and are enabling a "gig economy" for teaching staff, a grave failing of both teachers and students.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@griswold12 I don't, and they aren't. But since even this short sentence is error-riddled and stupid. I'm blocking you. I don't mind a discussion with a thinking person, but I am not wasting my time with an ignoramus.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@Fight4Faculty Amen, sister. United we stand, divided, we fall—and the students and the idea of education fall with us.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@college_profess @PLatSeneca Let me clarify slightly: CEC is indeed bargaining for itself, which means for senior educrats like $425,000 presidents and $290,000 Sr VPs. They don't care for teachers, staff, or, especially, students. For them, the college system is a business run to benefit its manager class.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@PLatSeneca Correct. The two sides had worked out an agreement on all but the Academic Freedom part. Then the colleges withdrew from the table and from their agreement, and instead set up this forced vote, which is way worse than what they agreed AND way worse than their original offer!

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@griswold12 I don't know what you could mean when you say OPSEU is a business. It obviously is not.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@anas_wilson And offer less than you had agreed at the table AND less than the original offer!

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

I wonder of part of the labour issue here is that the people running the colleges insist on using a "business model." Colleges ARE NOT BUSINESSES. They are public services, and should be operated as such. #collegestrike #ontariocollegestrike #standwithfaculty

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@Jane70823060 @goldyloxe @Capraig @local244 The colleges are forcing a vote on their offer, in which they go back on agreements they already made on almost every issue. Only item left to bargain was no-cost item about academic freedom, which is the right of your instructors to teach content the way they think best.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@clmnutrition You deserve a refund, of tuition and other fees. Contact the college and your MPP. Fees paid for services not delivered is fraud-ish, right?

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@FinallyInspired Good question! You won't be if yr employer can keep you on contract and cut you at will. That is one of the key issues in our strike.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@cmcintyre7 Demand it, & get classmates too. Otherwise colleges win from unfair labour practice: they keep your tuition, don't pay my (small) salary.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@OntarioSRights @OPSEU Not due to OPSEU. Due to the unwillingness of the colleges to negotiate from the outset.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@Richard_NSeven I and my fellow instructors agree with you. I personally (not speaking for anyone else) think you deserve a refund for any untaught weeks.

[Dave Peters @ConCollPartial]

@CAATA_local562 @Kathleen_Wynne Or tell Premier and Matthews to cut pay to non-teaching admin staff (esp. presidents and CEOs at $200K+) so they can increase teacher pay!