Owl Hoots No 575 –published on August 25, 2025. Topics included
– Know your rights – Cont Ed sick days
– New Teachers’ meeting
– Budget Cuts
– Teaching in French
– World Women’s March
– Proposals for Satellite Campus
– 2SLGBTQ+ Survey
Owl Hoots No 574 –published on May 30, 2025. Topics included
– Budget Cuts
– Final Grade Deadline
– Teachers Availability
– DTU Summer Hours
Owl Hoots No 573 –published on April 22, 2025. Topics included
-DTU Elections and General Assembly
– Update on the Ministry Investigation
– DTU Party
– Leaves Deadline
– Professional Development Funds
– College considering imposing Course Outline Templates
– Allies against Homophobia and Transphobia
– Petition against PL89, an attach on the right strike
– Tell your MNA to support victims of workplace injuries and illnesses
Owl Hoots No 572 –published on February 7, 2025. Topics included
– Welcome Message
– Ministry Investigation
– CI and Class sizes
– Important Dates
– Remuneration for Cont Ed Remake Exams
– Experience and Schooling Documentation
– Refusing a Workload
– Union Representation
– Updated Sick Bank Statements
– Health and Safety
– Ici, on boycotte Amazon
Owl Hoots No 571 –published on October 31, 2024. Topics included
– Budgets slashed across the cegep network
– Check your Seniority
– Important Changes to Insurance Coverage
– Staffing Courses in French
– Leave Deadlines
– Retirement Seminar
– Scholarity Attestations
– CI Violations
– CSN Campaign – Vraiment Public
– Save the Date !
Owl Hoots No 570 –published on August 27, 2024. Topics included
-Law 14 Petition
– Upcoming Events
– 27 Pays – Permanent Teachers
– Salary Increase and Retro
– French Language Training Release
– Student Accommodations and Issues
– DTU By-Elections
-PARC Activities are now free!
Owl Hoots No 569 –published on June 11, 2024. Topics included
– Important message for non-permanent teachers
– Final Grades
– Collective Agreement Signed!
– Important Reminders about your Pay
– Faculty Vacation – Transfers of Availability
– DTU Office Summer Hours
Owl Hoots No 568 –published on May 9, 2024. Topics included
– DTU Election 2024-2025
– Upcoming Leaves Deadline
– General Offer of Service (G.O.S) – Deadlines for Accepting Workloads
– Important message for non-permanent teachers
– Professional Experience
– Collective Agreement and Salary Increases
– Hiring Committees – French requirement
– Impact of New “drop” Deadline
– Double Employment – Department
– Faculty Vacation – Transfer of Availability
– CSN Campaign: Vraiment Public
Owl Hoots No 567 –published on March 26, 2024. Topics included
– Welcome Back
– Faculty Vacation dates
– French Survey Results
– Updates to CA
– Healthy and Safety
– DTU Annual Party
– Elections and GA
– GOS Entente
– Upcoming Leaves deadlines
– Professional Development Funds
– Your Rights, Explained
Owl Hoots No 566 –published on February 12, 2024. Topics included
– Welcome Message
– Executive Council Meetings
– Local Activities
– New Teachers – Schooling and Experience
– Law 14 Update
– FNEEQ Guide for Inclusive Communication
-Your rights, Explained
Owl Hoots No 565 –published on September 5, 2023. Topics included
-Negotiations are ramping up
– Scholarity Wins
– New Semester, Same Issues
– CTD Courses for Faculty
– Employee Assistance Program
– Manifestation Nationale
Owl Hoots No 564 –published on May 24, 2023. Topics included
-Semester Round-Up by Mobilization Coordinator Adam Bright
– Invite the DTU to your department meeting!
– Final Grade Deadline
– Teacher Availability
– Important message for non-permanent teachers
– Administration overreach on pedagogical concerns
– Know Your Rights: Grade Review Committees
– EDIA training
– Non-Permanent Teachers: When is the workload official?
– DTU Summer Hours
Owl Hoots No 563 –published on March 28, 2023. Topics included
-Union Dues Holiday
– College Services Survey
-Faculty Availability and Vacation Period
Owl Hoots No 562 –published on February 10, 2023. Topics included
– DTU General Assembly
– DTU Retirement Seminar
-Professional Development Funds
– Employees Assistance Program
– Departments in Difficulty
– Evaluate the College!
– Negotiations 2023
– Executive Council Meetings
– Call doe Participations
Owl Hoots No 561 –published on December 12, 2022. Topics included
-Holiday Party
– Reminder: Period of Availability
– Sick Days for Cont. Ed and End of COVID Accommodations
-Final Grade Deadline
-CEEC Snubs Teachers
– DTU holiday hours
Owl Hoots No 560 –published on November 4, 2022. Topics included
– Local Mobilisation
– Common Front Mobilisation
– Union Dues Holiday
– Ventilation Issues
-DTU Pub Nights are Back!
– November is Insurance Month!
– Voluntary Workload Reduction Requests
– Scholarity Evaluations
– Retirement and RREGOP Training
– Annual Party
Owl Hoots No 559 –published on February 25, 2022. Topics included
– Confusing COVID Protocols
– Crowded Classes and College Resources
– Nego 2023: Consultations
– Online Pilot Project
– Know Your Rights: Union Representation at Meetings
– Challenging the College on its “Wellness Challenge”
– International Women’s Day
– Know Your Rights: Double Employment – Remuneration
– FNEEQ-CSN Anti-Racism Survey
-Working From Home 2021 – Calculating Days
Owl Hoots No 558 –published on September 1, 2022. Topics included
– Welcome Back
– Upcoming Events
– Climate Strike – 23rd September 2022
– Welcome New Teachers
– Bill 96
– College’s Memo on Continuing Education
– College Readiness
– Dawson College Financial Aid Office Food Bank & Snack Centre
Owl Hoots No 557 –published on February 25, 2022. Topics included
– Bill 96 Adopted Despite Mobilization Efforts
– College Renews Project Despite Questions Remaining
– College Policy on Leaves and Gradual Retirement
– Professional Development
– Faculty Availability and Vacation Period
-DTU Summer Hours
– Dawson College Financial Aid Office Food Bank & Snack Centre
Owl Hoots No 556 –published on April 14, 2022. Topics included
– General Assembly
– College Refuses Conversion for Continuing Education Teacher
– Upcoming Deadlines
– Retro Pay
– April is General Offer of Service (GOS) Month
– Obituary for Patrick Powers
– Online Pilot Project
– Nego 2023: Consultation Round-Up
– COVID-19 Testing Protocols
Owl Hoots No 555 –published on February 25, 2022. Topics included
– Confusing COVID Protocols
– Crowded Classes and College Resources
– Nego 2023: Consultations
– Online Pilot Project
– Know Your Rights: Union Representation at Meetings
– Challenging the College on its “Wellness Challenge”
– International Women’s Day
– Know Your Rights: Double Employment – Remuneration
– FNEEQ-CSN Anti-Racism Survey
-Working From Home 2021 – Calculating Days
Owl Hoots No 554 –published on December 9, 2021. Topics included
– DTU Office Hours
– Approval of Agreements in Principle
– Reminder: Period of Availability
– Know Your Rights – Union Representation
– CNESST Preventive Leave
Owl Hoots No 553 –published on October 5, 2021. Topics included
– Upcoming General Assembly
– Upcoming Deadlines
– Surveys
– Connecting with New Teachers
– Update on Covid Protocols
– Teacher Evaluations
– College Readiness
– Know Your Rights: Leave for Family Reasons
– DTU and Senate Elections
– FNEEQ’s Position on Bill 96
Owl Hoots No 552 –published on May 7, 2021. Topics included
– Planned Strike Dates: 11th – 13th May
– Message For Students
– Withholding Final Grades
– In-Person Exams and In-Person Teaching in the Fall
– Upcoming Events and Deadlines
– Availability and Vacation Period
Owl Hoots No 551 –published on March 21, 2021. Topics included
– Nego Update – 1 Step forward, 2 Steps Back
– Freedom of Expression
– Equity and Diversity Committee
– Know Your Rights – Double Employment
– Work From Home – calculating days
– CTD Courses for Faculty
Owl Hoots No 550 — published on February 3, 2021. Topics included
– Nego Updates
– Winter 2021 Cont. Ed. Encadrement
– Settlement of Insurance Dossier
– Confucius Institute
– Useful Information: Employee Assistance Program; Work From Home – Tax Forms; Professional Development Funds
Owl Hoots No 549 — published on October 14, 2020. Topics included
– Pay implications of 14-week semester
– DTU Elections
– Serious Concerns about non-opening of Postes in several disciplines
– Concerns about Student AccessAbility Centre Services and Support
– Work-Family Balance
– Ransomware attack at Cegep St.-Felicien
Owl Hoots No 548 — published on February 11, 2020. Topics included
– Where are we in the négo process?
– Highlights (or, low-lights) from the government proposal
– Continuing Education Mobilization Committee
– Why the CSN rejects the government’s proposed ‘Consultation Forums’
– A concern about the push to create new CECs
Owl Hoots No 547 — published on October 22, 2019. Topics included
– Earth Action Day
– Check your Seniority
– Cont. Ed. Sick Days
Owl Hoots No 546 — published on September 9, 2019. Topics included
– Earth Action Day
– “You should know” – Cont. Ed.
Owl Hoots No 545 — published on April 30, 2019. Topics included
– May day activities
– Continuing Education Mobilisation Committee
– Passing of Michel Giroux, French Department
Owl Hoots No 544 — published on March 11, 2019. Topics included
– Environment Committee
– Profs pour la planète
– Health and Climate Change
Owl Hoots No 543 — published on January 29, 2019. Topics included
– Regroupement Report
– Bill 151 Policy Update
– Your rights, explained: Hourly paid work; Academic Grievance
Owl Hoots No 542 — published on November 14, 2018. Topics included
– General Assembly Recap
– Freedom of Religion
Owl Hoots No 541 — published on September 6, 2018. Topics included
– Cont’Ed working conditions
– Your rights, explained: the selection committee; special leaves and family days
Owl Hoots No 540 — published on September 12, 2017. Topics included
– Your rights, explained: sick days
Owl Hoots No 539 — published on April 11, 2017. Topics included
– Consulting firms submits “organizational review” of Dawson’s Continuing Education sector
– Stand in solidarity: Withhold your final grades until June 1st
– Disability medical reports
– Important dates
– États généraux de l’enseignement supérieur
– Continuing Education charges update
Owl Hoots No 538 — published on February 10, 2017. Topics included
– Winter 2017 Semester dates and reminders
– Save the date
– Union’s charges distribution protocol implemented
– Coalition Main Rouge plans a National Day of Action
– Executive Council motions supports food sovereignty at Dawson
– Important message for non-permanent teachers
Owl Hoots No 537 — published on November 10, 2016. Topics included
– Insurance News
– General Assembly passes motion in support of DTU’s charges strategy for Cont’Ed
– DTU Executive Council supports ‘preferred names’ initiative
– Director General disregards Senate, pushes Strategic Plan through BOG
– The Council of Colleges: A bigger, badder CEEC?
Owl Hoots No 536 — published on September 7, 2016. Topics included
– Negotiations wrap-up
– Calling all Cont. Ed. teachers
– Long-term disability insurance now mandatory for certain non-permanent teachers
– How the lump sum payment was calculated
– Strike pay vacation deductions – check your pay stub