The professors’ paradox: Improving education by refusing to teach

Tintamarre triste

Bonjour, J’ai mal dormi cette nuit… comme les nuits précédentes d’ailleurs. Je pensais à notre Tintamarre triste et à la place que j’y occupais. Le cœur n’y était pas. Je sentais une véritable tristesse. Nous marchions vers l’Université, nous faisions du bruit avec nos casseroles en appui aux étudiantes et aux étudiants et j’étais derrière […]

A question of respect

The collective agreement between the Association of Professors and Librarians of Université Sainte-Anne (APPBUSA) expired in July, 2020.  Extended for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been the subject of negotiations since June 30, 2021. Collective bargaining is often adversarial: one party wins,  the other loses. This so-called classical perspective discourages agreement […]

Press release

APPBUSA has now received the list of contract clauses held back from arbitration by the administration. There are 44 clauses, relating to 11 different articles, addressing not only management rights (as the administration claimed in its March 31 press release) but in fact covering a wide range of critical issues: hiring and re-hiring, work overload, […]