The Chronicle: Professors at Ontario’s Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Go Out on Strike
About 150,000 students at Ontario’s 24 colleges of applied arts and technology are out of the classroom after their professors walked off their jobs early Tuesday, and some students are wondering whether the strike will prevent them from graduating on time.
Negotiations between the professors, whose last contract expired in August, and the colleges broke down late Monday night after days of intense talks conducted under a media blackout.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents some 9,100 full-time faculty members at the colleges, says the central issue is education quality. However, the colleges say they’ve offered a good deal, with salary increases that would make the professors the highest-paid college faculty members in the country and with no additional workload. …
Ontario’s college system is unique in Canada. It provides focused employment training and enrolls many university graduates who take supplementary college courses after earning their degree. The courses are developed in partnership with thousands of businesses and industries. In addition, every college has a partnership agreement with local universities. During the strike, most campuses are remaining open to students so they can use academic, health, and recreational facilities. Administrators are advising them to keep up their course work. Night classes that are taught by faculty members not represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union are continuing on many campuses, as are some classes taught by university professors, who are represented by a different union.
Toronto Star: Ontarioo college teachers on strike
About 9,100 full-time Ontario college teachers, counsellors and librarians will walk off the job today after talks broke down last night in a dispute over class size and workload. Classes have been cancelled for more than 150,000 students at a crucial time in the school year.
Brockville Recorder and Times: Colleges teachers walk out
For the first time in 17 years, faculty at St. Lawrence College and 23 other Ontario community colleges are on strike. The walkout leaves more than 150,000 college students across the province, including about 500 in Brockville, uncertain about completing their year.
Monsters and Critics: 9,100 Ontario college teachers strike
Failed contract negotiations led 9,100 Ontario college teachers and aides to walk off the job Tuesday, affecting 150,000 students in the province. The deal offered by the college association would have boosted salaries 12.6 percent over four years and capped class sizes.
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