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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

AM800 file photo After three days of virtual voting teachers counsellors and librarians at the provinces colleges voted 594 per cent in favour of a strike to back contract demands. Due to the pandemic shes watched a lot of her college career pass her by and is now at risk of losing out on employment opportunities if the semester is extended.

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A walkout would affect more than 240000 students at Ontario colleges along with some 16000 college faculty members across the province.

. The main focus of the Ontario College strike is on job security and academic freedom. What you need to know CTV News Classes are cancelled for approximately half a million students in Ontario after faculty at. Ontario college academics vote in favour of labour action.

On March 18 unless the College Employer Council agrees to. Ontario Public Service Employees Union OPSEU and the College Employer Council CEC cant come to agreement on dozens of issues as they look. Ontario college faculty vote in favour of a strike.

The secret ballot vote will be conducted virtually. The collective agreement for college faculty expired on September 30 2021. 16000 faculty at Ontarios 24 public colleges could strike on Friday unless the College Employer Council CEC agrees to voluntary binding interest arbitration says the union.

Peron like many college students is worried about the strike deadline OPSEU has set for Friday morning at 1201 am. The collective agreement for academic staff faculty counsellors and librarians at all of Ontarios 24 colleges expired on September 30 2021. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union which represents college faculty members has threatened to strike on Friday if the College Employee Council doesnt agree to settle outstanding.

The Ontario College Faculty has received a strike mandate from its members from all 24 publicly funded colleges in a vote held Saturday. The last time a strike vote was held in 2017 68 per cent of the academic faculty union voted in favour of a strike. A new contract agreement has not been reached.

The strike vote will be held over the course of 3 days December 9 at 9am until December 11 at 3pm. On March 4 15 college student associations sent an open letter to the CEC OPSEU and Ontarios Ministry of Colleges and Universities. Nearly 81 percent of College faculty are contract workers and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union OPSEU wishes to bring this number to 50 percent full-timers and 50 percent contracted staff.

Fanshawe College in London Ont. The strike mandate does not mean that a strike will happen automatically. About 280 full-time faculty members have been on strike since Feb.

Of the faculty who voted 62 per cent rejected the offer. This means that the Ontario Public Service Employees Union OPSEU the union that represents all full-time and partial-load faculty at all Ontario colleges will be in a legal strike position as of 1201 am. 10 citing concerns about workload.

Toronto Strike looms for 24 Ontario colleges after union delivers ultimatum A union representing thousands of faculty at Ontarios 24 public colleges has delivered an ultimatum to their employer. TORONTO Ontario college faculty members have reaffirmed their stand on the last contract offer from the provinces 24 community colleges. The faculty union OPSEU voted 594 in favour of the option to strike.

After months of negotiations and no contract for nearly three months the Ontario College Faculty OCF has voted in favour of a strike mandate. The strike vote will be held over the course of 3 days December 9th at 9am until the 11th at 3pm. There appears to be an impasse between the council that represents Ontarios 24 colleges and the union that represents college faculty and staff.

Everyones really scared theyre not sure if theyre going to be able to graduate and a. On December 18 2021. The union has no choice but to seek a strike mandate should job action become necessary.

Faculty members voted 59 per cent in favour of a strike. Sean IrvineCTV London The threat of a strike at Fanshawe and 23 other Ontario colleges is looming. Vasic said the strike vote in 2017 was weak but towards end of the striking period faculty discontentment with the colleges grew to the point that 86-per-cent of the union voted against a college offer that would have ended it.

It spoke of a fear that students would see a repeat of the 2017 strike which left students feeling their year was rushed and incomplete and that they were left unprepared for employment. What is the Ontario College Strike. A tentative deal has been reached in a strike by Ontario Tech University faculty in Oshawa.

Monday December 13th 2021 - 541 am. The Ontario Public Services Employees Union says 16000 faculty members will go on strike at 1201 am. The collective agreement for college faculty expired on September 30 2021.

Approximately 16000 faculty across the two dozen public colleges in Ontario are set to strike later this week with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union OPSEU saying in an open letter on. On March 15 2022. The secret ballot vote will be conducted virtually.

There hasnt been movement. Ontario colleges strike.

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