[Fdu] Ontario Colleges On Strike

[Cynthia Wright]

Various commentaries at the link below.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1499 .... October 20, 2017
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  Ontario Colleges On Strike <http://socialistproject.ca/bullet/1499.php>

More than 12,000 Ontario public college faculty were on the picket line 
rather than in their classrooms on Monday morning after talks between 
the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the College 
Employer Council failed to produce a tentative collective agreement.

"On October 14, we presented Council with a streamlined offer that 
represented what faculty consider to be the bare minimum we need to 
ensure quality education for students and treat contract faculty 
fairly," said JP Hornick, chair of the union bargaining team. "We 
carefully crafted a proposal that responded to Council’s concerns about 
costs in a fair and reasonable way."

"Unfortunately, Council refused to agree on even the no-cost items, such 
as longer contracts for contract faculty and academic freedom," she 
said. "This leaves us with no choice but to withdraw our services until 
such time as our employer is ready to negotiate seriously."

Hornick said Council is committed to a "Walmart model of education" 
based on reducing the role of full-time faculty and exploiting underpaid 
contract workers who have no job security beyond one semester.

OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas called the current impasse 
"regrettable" but said college faculty have the full backing of the 
union’s 130,000 members and their $72-million strike fund.

"Our union has a track record of getting deals done without work 
stoppages," he said. "Unfortunately, that has not happened in this case. 
Nonetheless, I encourage the colleges to get back to the table so we can 
wrap this up swiftly, for the good of students and faculty alike."

OPSEU represents professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians 
working at 24 public colleges across Ontario.


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