Newswire.ca: Ontario colleges urge OPSEU not to strike
Ontario colleges are urging the Ontario Public
Service Employees Union (OPSEU) to work with colleges to reach a negotiated
agreement and not take its faculty members on strike Tuesday.
“There is no reason for OPSEU to disrupt the students’ education at this
critical time in the school year,” said Dr. Rick Miner, chair of the colleges’
committee of presidents. “The colleges have provided a good offer to faculty
and it is important the union works with us to reach an agreement.”
The key elements of the colleges’ offer to OPSEU are:
– A 12.6-per-cent increase in salary over four years, which would move
the new maximum salary to $94,277 by April 2009
– An increase over four years for two-step coordinators (faculty who
have additional coordinating duties) that would move their new maximum
salary to $99,303
– No increase to workload.
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