Colleges And Faculty To Continue Contract Discussion To Avoid Strike

In a previous blog post we discuss the call for a strike that Ontario's colleges faculty members will vote for in the fall, after rejecting a 7.5% wage hike offered by the Ontario government. Now, they are back to negotiating after the Thanksgiving weekend.

Ontario's colleges are back at the bargaining table today, as the strike deadline of October 15^th approaches. The talks have been put on hiatus at the end of September after no progress was made.

The union represents "full-time professors as well as "partial load" instructors who teach between seven and 12 hours a week, as well as college counsellors and librarians," and the last offer that was received from the colleges provided a 7.5 per cent raise over four years, as well as improvements to benefits and a lump-sum payment which they did not accept.