Ontario colleges may face a faculty strike in the new year.
Talks between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, who represent college faculty, and the College Compensation and Appoints Council, who represent the colleges, have recently ended.
OPSEU is now hoping its members will vote to strike.
“The employer has provoked us into this,” Ted Montgomery, chair of the faculty bargaining team for colleges, said.
According to Montgomery, the CCAC have put new restrictions on negotiations and are no longer willing to bargain provincially.
“They treat college teachers and students as second-class citizens,” Montgomery said. “Teachers are just fed up with the management.”
He also said OPSEU hopes to set a date for a strike vote in early January, so students’ academic years will not be disrupted.

—Cheryl Stone