Strike Ontario colleges

2022 - 3 - 15

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Staff at Ontario public colleges could strike by Friday (Globalnews.ca)

If its demands are not met, the union says 16000 staff at Ontario colleges will go on strike at 12:01 a.m. this Friday, March 18.

Ontario colleges could strike on Friday. Here's what that means (Toronto Star)

16000 faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges could strike on Friday unless the College Employer Council (CEC) agrees to voluntary binding interest ...

The union says binding interest is an alternative to a strike or a lockout. A third party neutral arbitrator is asked to review both proposals and “creates a compromise from the two proposals,” OPSEUs said. This is simply untrue.” read the statement by the council representing colleges. “Students should be the priority during this process. Bargaining team chair JP Hornick said union members want better job security for faculty who are on partial-load contracts. The looming strike deadline includes professors, librarians, instructors and counsellors employed by Ontario’s 24 public colleges. Negotiations between the two groups broke down in November. Right now, this figure stands at five minutes per student. “The Union is claiming it had no choice but to strike because the Colleges have refused to bargain and have refused arbitration. “I've heard from students and from parents who are very upset. OPSEU represents more than 16,000 public college staff members. Students cannot afford a strike at this time.

'I'm just worried': Strike at Ontario colleges could begin Friday (NewmarketToday.ca)

Faculty at Ontario's 24 public college, including Seneca, say they will strike at 12:01 a.m. March 18 if the College Employer Council doesn't agree to ...

It involves both parties asking a neutral arbitrator to resolve a bargaining dispute as an alternative to a strike or lockout. We might not go into a strike,” he said. A walkout would affect more than 240,000 students at Ontario colleges, along with some 16,000 college faculty members across the province. “And make sure they graduate.” “I don’t know whether my teachers are going to be on strike. “I’m just worried if this will upset my grades.”

Ontario minister says college students can't afford for faculty to strike ... (CTV Toronto)

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union's college faculty bargaining team, representing professors, instructors, librarians and counsellors, has told ...

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Ontario college faculty threaten provincewide strike Friday | CBC News (CBC.ca)

The union representing thousands of Ontario college faculty members is threatening to walk off the job at the end of this this week if their demands are not ...

Student groups say they are the ones losing out. That would see the neutral third party pick one of the two contracts last offered in November, when negotiations first broke down. OPSEU says pursuing this route will eliminate the disruption to students by avoiding a strike or a lockout. It's a win for students," OPSEU's letter said. We can never accept them," it reads. That's your choice, and we take you at your word," the OPSEU letter said.

Ontario college faculty set a Friday strike deadline (Barrie 360)

OPSEU represents 16,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians ... Thousands of employees at Ontario's 24 public colleges could walk off the job ...

We hope that you will meet us there and provide the certainty students need,” the letter states. In an open letter today,— OPSEU (@OPSEU) @CollegeFacultyat 24 Ontario public colleges say they’ll strike at 12:01 on March 18 if the @CECouncilwon’t agree to voluntary binding interest arbitration. The union represents 16,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians.

Faculty at Ontario colleges set to strike on Friday, unless employer ... (CP24 Toronto's Breaking News)

A union representing thousands of faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges has delivered an ultimatum to their employer, suggesting that they are prepared to ...

This time we are willing to refer all outstanding issues to binding interest arbitration without a strike and if we end up with a strike that ends in binding interest arbitration, I would have to say that that is entirely on management,” Professor Jonathan Singer, who is a member of the bargaining committee, said during an interview with CP24 on Monday afternoon. “If they (the employer) genuinely believe that their positions are reasonable, then they should have the confidence to take it to binding interest arbitration.” “What I can say is that every significant labour dispute or strike that I can think of in our division in in recent history has ended up in binding interest arbitration.