Fair Employment Week: October 21st-October 25th, 2024
Fair Employment Week (FEW) is held in October every year. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) started the event, inspired by Campus Equity Week, a similar event which takes place in the United States and Mexico. In turn, Campus Equity Week was inspired by a week of action carried out by more than 100 community colleges in California, two decades ago.
FEW focuses on faculty in temporary contracts, whose employment is precarious and unprotected. This is particularly a concern at Langara this year, with significant uncertainty about the repercussions of changes in federal and provincial government guidelines on international student caps and opportunities for employment and citizenship following a Canadian course of study.