CTV: College teacher strike enters day two
It could be a long and drawn out battle between college professors and the institutions they work for, with Ontario students paying the price for the ongoing labour dispute.
On Wednesday, Ontario professors entered their second day on the picket lines, with both sides of the dispute acknowledging it could be some time before an agreement is reached.
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THE ANSWER TO Algonquin College’s labour strife rests with the province, says college president Robert Gillett. In a move that could force the summer semester’s cancellation, 9,100 instructor, librarian and counsellor members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union from 24 colleges across the province walked off the job yesterday over workload demands.
Sentinel Review: College teachers on strike
The province’s college professors are calling it a matter of “education quality,” but regardless of the issue, students won’t be in the classroom until an agreement is reached.
As of midnight Tuesday, 9,100 instructors – members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union – walked off the job after talks broke down between union negotiators and the College Compensation and Appointments Council. At the Oxford campus of Fanshawe College, there are only six faculty members involved in the action, but the satellite campus is still effectively shut down for the duration of the strike.
“All post-secondary activity has been suspended,” said Sherri Knott, the principal of the Oxford campus.
Because of the strike, the satellite’s roughly 30 part-time instructors have been laid off until a resolution can be reached between the union and college management. Knott indicated that “nothing had been established” to deal with the strike’s potential impact to the academic year. Knott, though, reassured the campus’s almost 300 students their year was likely not in jeopardy
Perry Sound North Star: College students locked out
One teacher is on strike and about 25 students are locked out of class at Canadore College’s Parry Sound campus following a breakdown in talks between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Monday.
The strike is affecting 25 students here in two classes, including 15 from the Academic Skills Development class, and 10 within the Welder/Fitter Program, which is run out of Parry Sound High School. While the program’s teacher is not a part of this particular strike action, the school has decided to shut down the program. They are concerned that students not be disrupted should a picket line be formed there.
Toronto Star: One professor
Ray Holmes has traded in his wrenches for a picket sign, abandoning his Centennial College classroom to join in the first strike of his 15-year teaching career.
He does not want to do it. He feels he must.
“Everybody is frustrated,” Holmes, 48, said last night. “Something has to be done.”
Holmes, the co-ordinator/professor of the Acura/Honda automotive apprenticeship program at Centennial’s Ashtonbee campus in Scarborough, is one of 9,100 full-time college faculty who walked off the job yesterday in a dispute over workload and class sizes.
With a class full of students completing their fourth and final eight-week course on their way to becoming qualified mechanics, Holmes is well aware that the strike could have a huge impact on his pupils. But he feels it’s a fight that will ultimately benefit those who come after them.
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