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Permanent-ish: Tales from the Precarious Frontline

Permanent-ish: Tales from the Precarious Frontline

Update: 2025-05-12
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In this episode of RASCALS’ Roundtable, we sit down with Louisa Hadley, president of the Dawson Teachers’ Union, to talk about precarity, and with David Turpie, a CEGEP teacher who’s lived to tell the tale. From long commutes and unpredictable schedules to burning questions about permanence, this episode exposes the challenges and resilience of Quebec’s non-permanent teachers. 
 
🎧 Topics include: 
- The mental and financial cost of precarity 
- Why continuing education teachers face the biggest inequities 
- What unions are fighting for 
- David’s biking, juggling, multi-CEGEP journey 
 
📲 Follow the precarity experience: @ppducvm on Instagram 
🔗 Learn more at dtu.qc.ca or via the Dawson Teachers’ Union Facebook page 

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Permanent-ish: Tales from the Precarious Frontline

Permanent-ish: Tales from the Precarious Frontline

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