CAUT Bulletin: Arbitrator Dismisses Google Grievance
Lakehead University Faculty Association contested the switch to Google’s e-mail in 2007, alleging violations of collective agreement rights to privacy and academic freedom.
In his decision, arbitrator Joseph Carrier acknowledged the university exposed its academic staff to greater danger because “…the likelihood of such incursions by U.S. authority into a private e-mail system (Lakehead’s own former system) was marginal compared to what might occur in the presence of the Google system.”
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