Ontario: Strikers ordered back to class

by E Wayne Ross on February 2, 2009

The National: Strikers ordered back to class

TORONTO // Starting today, Nora Kharouba, a second-year psychology student, and more than 45,000 of her undergraduate peers return to their classes at York University for the first time in nearly three months.

A Nov 6 strike by the union representing 3,400 contract faculty and graduate students closed down Canada’s third-largest university in the city’s north-west.

Efforts by York’s administration and the union to negotiate a new contract did not produce an agreement, leading the province of Ontario on Thursday to legislate the strikers back to campus.