All instructors in the department are hired on rolling contracts. A rolling contract automatically renewed. Specifically, I interviewed initially and was hired to teach courses. Since that initial hiring, I didn’t need to do anything. I was assigned courses to teach, and taught them. Year after year. The Collective Agreement and University policy provides existing instructors with right of first refusal and requires the University to hire based on merit. As noted on www.SPPIC.ca, I had stellar student evaluations, exemplary administrative evaluations, and won teaching awards. Compare this with Tykwinski hiring former graduate students and sexual partners who had never taught large lecture classes before.
Further evidence that the aforementioned is correct is from the AASUA investigation and arbitration. The investigation and arbitration focused on Tykwinski‘s hiring, with the AASUA making the above arguments. The University capitulated on the eve of arbitration, but didn’t give me my job back because of the “broken employment relationship”. Broken completely by Tykwinski.
Additionally, the vast majority of the administrative wrongdoing presented on www.SPPIC.ca is independent of my employment status:
- Tykwinski’s patronage hiring, where Tykwinski literally handed critical university teaching positions to former students and sexual partners of research faculty. There was no job posting, no call for applications, and no interviews. There was no consideration of their teaching interest and teaching ability. Textbook patronage.
- Tykwinski was required to investigate the complaint if he was going to use it to terminate me. Indeed, I have never been informed of any complaint. Only years later did records obtained through FOIP allude to the existence of a complaint that triggered my termination. Additionally if a complaint existed, the University lied to the AASUA during the Union’s investigation and grievance.
- Tykwinski defamation and malicious destruction of my career and credibility. Because people were asking questions about my departure, Tykwinski sent an email to around 400 people, stating that my departure was for cause. Additionally, the University proactively black-listed me with other potential employers. All this, and I hadn’t been accused of anything! I only learned of Tykwinski’s and the University’s actions through FOIP records obtained years later.
- Faculty salary increases, where around 25 % of research faculty are receiving annual raises well above that stated in the Collective Agreement. While the maximum increase is under 6000 $, many research faculty receiving raises over 20,000 $, and some over 50,000 $! This is happening while the University pleads poverty and demands austerity from every other aspect of the University, including instructors!
- Continuing administrative corruption. When the Montemagno debacle hit the news in 2018, the University did a complete reversal and publicly admitted misconduct by Montemagno and by the University with the attempted cover-up. The University publicly promised to be open, fair, and transparent with future complaints against administrators. They lied. They are doing the same thing with the Tykwinski debacle. The Montemagno debacle pertains only to improper hiring (nepotism). The Tykwinski debacle involves improper hiring (patronage), failed and improper investigations, improper termination, defamation, and the failed instruction of thousands of students.