OPSEU members on strike outside the GBC Casa Loma Campus. Zakira Yacoob
A step in the right direction
Picket lines to continue as both sides head back to table with mediator.
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Programs like EAP will no longer run at GBC. Mayara Sampaio
Pause for concern
Decision to pause program intake raises concern among students and OPSEU.
Student will not see an impact to their semester. Mayara Sampaio
Strike averted
No interruptions coming to Winter 2025 semester with faculty strike avoided.
What ‘work-to-rule’ means for GBC and how students can speak up about faculty labour action
Illustration by Katie Doyle As of January 3, college faculty have entered into the second…
“We are trying to change all that culture so that students do have that best experience” – Inside OPSEU’s complaints about GBC’s anti-racism efforts
Two weeks after OPSEU Locals 556 and 557, the unions representing George Brown College’s (GBC)…
GBC blasted by OPSEU over anti-racism inaction in letter to board of governors
On April 21, 2021, OPSEU Locals 556 and 557, the unions representing George Brown College’s…
“It’s just a very different experience.” – Computerized notetakers, provincial politicians say GBC’s switch to Note Taking Express shortchanges students
On December 15, 2020, 67 computerized notetakers at George Brown College (GBC) received an email…
Ontario Minister of Finance Vic Fedeli delivers the budget speech in the Ontario Legislature on Thursday.
Ontario budget ties college funding to performance
Performance-based funding for colleges to jump from 1.2% to 60% by 2024
Tom Tomassi, president of OPSEU faculty union Local 556, is calling on GBC to reinstate paid sick days for contract faculty. Photo: Ashraf Dabie / The Dialog
Union files complaint against GBC over sick days
GBC can do better for its faculty says union president
Marcus Holland, a student life ambassador at George Brown College, is one of thousands of part-time workers at Ontario colleges who have a tentative first collective agreement. Photo: Nico deVeber / The Dialog
Union and Ontario colleges reach agreement for part-time staff
Union says two-year agreement is a ‘big victory’ while colleges say it maintains operational flexibility
OPSEU president Warren (Smokey) Thomas says he's not sure if the union will win, but he likes their chances. Photo: InSapphoWeTrust / Creative Commons
OPSEU files charter challenge
Union alleges Ontario government’s return-to-work legislation denies rights and freedoms in Charter
Warren “Smokey” Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union, announcing the part-time support staff unionizing drive at George Brown’s Waterfront campus in 2015. Photo: OPSEU
Part-time support staff at Ontario colleges unionize
Multi-year effort sees 84 per cent of part-time support staff vote to unionize, says OPSEU