Great things happened on the picket lines. But students & faculty belong in the classrooms & labs doing amazing things together. Sept 23! (Found this mug at a thrift store just before the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board filed notice of lockout - today felt like the day to post it) #KeepDalStrong

DFA members accepted the agreement/back-to-work protocol. @dalhousieu.bsky.social also ratified. Faculty will be back in the classrooms/labs with students Tuesday. Thanks to our members for their resolve, to students for their support and to unions across Canada for having our backs. #KeepDalStrong

DFA Members ... Let's show the students how much we appreciated their amazing level of support of our efforts! Join them this Thursday, Sept 18 for Student Sit in On the Quad. #KeepDalStrong

DFA President Dave Westwood with a message for @dalhousieu.bsky.social students. #keepdalstrong @caut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social

DFA President Dave Westwood was a guest on CBC Info Morning today. Great interview! #KeepDalStrong www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

It's been almost four weeks since the @dalhousieu.bsky.social lockout of DFA faculty began. Progress has been made. Now, it's time for President Brooks to step in and get the Board to accept what is a fair and reasonable offer by the DFA. Let's get on with the term. #keepdalstrong

Meet @ansut.bsky.social Dal Students, Parents of dal students, supporters, Faculty, 11am this morning outside the Killam Library on University Ave in Halifax to March in Solidarity - #keepdalstrong

Dear @dalhousieu.bsky.social I fixed your home page 👇 @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong

Join us! Friday September 12 for the Solidarity March starting at the Killam Library on University Avenue. Let's show @dalhousieu.bsky.social Admin and Board a level of solidarity they have not seen before! #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Curtis Michael, Instructor of Indigenous Studies @dalhousieu.bsky.social and member of Sipekne’katik First Nations comments on his concern for students and missed opportunities. @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social #keepdalstrong

The energy!!!!

Global segment focusing on the impact of the @dalhousieu.bsky.social lockout on nursing. #keepdalstrong

DFA members Drew Bourret, Jen Frail-Gauthier and Tony Walker being interviewed on the exploitation of precarious workers in PSE. Short-term teaching contracts for long-term teaching needs does not keep any university strong. Thanks for the opportunity, St. FX Social Justice Radio. #KeepDalStrong

Happening now in the quad! The DSU and the DFA are hosting teach ins from 12 to 1! @dalfaculty.bsky.social

Shout out to Mat Whynott of the Canadian Labour Congress for his ongoing support of our Truro picketers. Mat comes with subs, a smile, and his CLC flag to boost our picketers and to #KeepDalStrong @cautdefencefund.bsky.social

The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors is NOT delivering on their mandate. These are a few of the more obvious areas in which they are failing the university community. What will they do to clean up this mess they have created? #KeeDalStrong

A great big thank you to the Association of Dalhousie Retirees and Pensioners for their financial support! They also attend every rally to cheer us on and show their solidarity to #KeepDalStrong @dalhousieu.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social

Today's DFA Daily Bulletin: It was the worst of weeks, it was the best of weeks... #KeepDalStrong #WeAreDal

From the DalGazette: dalgazette.com/opinions/dal... #KeepDalStrong #WeAreDal

Conciliation bet the @dalhousieu.bsky.social and the DFA starts today 9 am. One month ago today the Board walked away from conciliation. Let's hope they return to engage in meaningful bargaining, reach agreement, get students and faculty back to class! #KeepDalStrong @cautdefencefund.bsky.social

DFA is new to LinkedIn. Connect with us and read the article related to this image. Hint: Its about how a reputation that took 200 years to build has been destroyed in just 3 weeks. @KeepDalStrong

Wow, what a rally!!! $1 mill from @cautdefencefund.bsky.social , supporters from across the country, a groundswell of student support - @dalhousieu.bsky.social better come to conciliation Monday with a genuine interest in bargaining! #keepdalstrong

Thank you @smufu.bsky.social for your unwavering support!!!

Today, DFA Exec agreed to amend the complaint filed late Aug with the NS Labour Board. The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board's attempt to divide the DFA members has backfired. We stand united in the fight to #KeepDalStrong. We welcome productive conciliation meetings on Monday.

3rd DFA lockout rally. Happening now. #keepdalstrong

When a DFA member has been on LTA for 5 yrs, the position is clearly meeting a long-term teaching need. LTAs are on the same pay as career-stream faculty, conversion costs @dalhousieu.bsky.social nothing. Yet, they said no, asked us to drop the proposal for "interest arbitration." #KeepDalStrong

DFA was asked to drop this proposal for "interest arbitration". Accommodations for caregiving responsibilities seems like a reasonable ask of one of Atlantic Canada's "top employers". This is easily done and costs nothing. But @dalhousieu.bsky.social said no. #KeepDalStrong

DFA proposal that @DalhousieU demanded we drop for "interest arbitration"- Dal increase child care spots at Dal to benefit all parents at Dal, not just faculty. Not fully discussed before the Board left conciliation. #KeepDalStrong

Fantastic news! When students mobilize, great things happen! #KeepDalStrong

Picketing doesn't just take place on the streets! DFA has a team of virtual picketers working behind the scenes, blogging, researching, cataloguing photos, monitoring media, writing thank you letters, tracking donations ... the list goes on! Shout out to all! #KeepDalStrong

DFA proposed a $500/yr increase in the Health Spending Account. About 60% of DFA members max out this benefit. This increase would cost @dalhousieu.bsky.social approx $300k/yr. But they wouldn't discuss it. The Board has saved $5.6 MILLION by having faculty locked out for 2 weeks. #keepdalstrong

Not just classes are cancelled. DFA members have been locked out by the admin since August 20th: we can't sign students in from waitlists, can't advise them, can't share syllabi, can't help them with scholarship applications, etc. etc. #KeepDalStrong www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🚨 This seems all too familiar to locked out @dalfaculty.bsky.social members 👇 Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer theconversation.com/universities... #keepdalstrong @dalhousieu.bsky.social board of governors has certainly lost its way!! 😡

Picket lines were paused for the day, but a DFA contingent participated in the Hfx Labour Day Parade. #keepdalstrong

Thank you so much for your support!!!

Spotted on Insta (thanks to someone for pointing me to it). I’ve been told students and faculty can reach out directly:

The classrooms should benefit from the creative minds of our members. But until then …

globalnews.ca/video/113565... They cut out the best part of the chant, though: I think it went "5, 6, 7, 8, come on Dal negotiate." #KeepDalStrong

This is a really important point. I'll add Senate can't be called back before or even soon after Pres. Brooks ends the lockout, not least because DFA members on Senate *don't have access to e-mail until she ends the lockout and IT reinstates logins*. Senate will need a week or so? #KeepDalStrong

1000 faculty members have been locked out of @dalhousieu.bsky.social since Aug 18. That means 90% of classes WILL NOT start next week. The Board of Governors needs to come back to the table and stop playing with the future of our students. #keepdalstrong

Such an amazing show of solidarity! Reps from 20 faculty associations from coast to coast came to join the fight. The Board at @dalhousieu.bsky.social is not just fighting 1000 DFA members - they’re fighting an entire army. #keepdalstrong

2nd DFA Lockout Rally - This is happening RIGHT NOW! Game on and #keepdalstrong - 6225 University Ave, Halifax - Outside Killam Library

Nadine Ezzeddine, Nursing, highlights the impact this lockout will have on N.S. healthcare if it’s not soon resolved. @dalhousieu.bsky.social get back to the table!!! “As a locked out nursing faculty member, I need to address N.S. and the leaders of our province.” #keepdalstrong

Matt Numer, Health Promotion, urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social board back to the table. Let’s save the Fall term. Students need this resolved. #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @nsgeu.bsky.social

In the section on academic misconduct, specifically misrepresentation of sources, in my next first-year course, I’ll be using my employer’s “bargaining” documents. For shame. #KeepDalStrong

With yesterday’s stunts by the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board, this rally will be electric!! The place to be Fri, Aug 29 at 12 noon. See you there! #keepdalstrong

DFA President explains the past 24 hours and urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social board to negotiate rather than dictate. Talk to us at the table ti #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors' "offer" for interest arbitration won't resolve this. It's just creating further delays. Bargaining on the issues important to our members is required. Stop with the stunts, let's get back to the table and talk. It's the only way to #KeepDalStrong

Fallen Matthews, CUPE3912 instructor and a Dal PhD grad. The ripple effects of this lockout are immeasurable. It’s time for the board of @dalhousieu.bsky.social to get back to the table! DFA will bargain, Will you?#KeepDalStrong @cupe3912.bsky.social