NSCC Faculty will decide if they are going to cut ties with the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
The staff are voting on the option to form an independent faculty and professional support association under the umbrella of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
The decision will impact almost 950 instructors and support staff.
Human resource management teacher Susan Thompson-Graham says issues faculty at the Nova Scotia Community College face differ from those teachers in the primary to grade 12 school system experience.
“We are much too small in terms of only being ten percent of the overall membership of NSTU. We need to have an independent voice so that we can get our issues heard and brought to the table.”
Thompson-Graham feels their concerns can be lost among the voices of the 10,000 NSTU members.
“Being that we would be only second in size to Dalhousie in the whole province, means that we could lead the pattern in terms of bringing our issues to the bargaining tables.”
Voting closes Tuesday and it could be another ten days before the results are known.
Reported by Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
