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<p>Dear Colleagues, </p>
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<div class="">Please join colleagues from OCAD, York U and other
faculty members, students and supporters from across the province
on a Facebook event tomorrow at 4:30 pm (Tuesday, Apr. 19). The
event calls for the firing of Minister of Colleges and
Universities Ross Romano over the brutal, sudden closure of
programs (69) and dismissal of faculty (110) at Laurentian
University last week. </div>
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Because the Ford government - at the behest of, and in agreement
with, the Laurentian U administration led by President Robert Hache
- chose to allow the use of the (normally used for business
insolvencies) CCAA process (<b class="">Canadian Companies’
Arrangement Ac</b>t) - for the first time ever for a public
Canadian university), Laurentian U was ‘restructured’/downsized last
week in a highly secretive, court-ordered process that circumvented
collegial consultation with faculty and staff. The Collective
Agreement was suspended, its clauses regarding ‘financial exigency’
(for dealing with university financial issues) were set aside,
dismissed faculty colleagues did not get even get severance pay, and
lost their jobs on two weeks notice. For many dismissed colleagues,
their last day of work (and pay) from LU will be May 15, and after
that they can apply for EI. They - and the underserved Indigenous
and Francophone students in Northern Ontario - have been thrown
under the bus by the negligence of the Minster and LU senior
administrators, both of whom should have attended to LUs financial
problems transparently many months ago, and sought provincial
government funding to resolve them. <br class="">
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Here's the link to the Facebook event: <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/939747623460452/"
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