Faculty at Ontario’s 24 colleges are walking picket lines today, with the labour dispute affecting more than 500,000 students in the province. The strike involving more than 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians began late Sunday, after the two sides couldn’t resolve their differences by a deadline of 12:01 a.m. Monday. Both sides say there are currently no talks scheduled to end the dispute. The colleges say they have put a four-year-agreement that offers a 7.75 per cent pay increase on the table which it would like faculty to vote on. The issue for OPSEU seems to be more permanent teachers which is framed as job security. Also this report with a slightly different skew from Ginella Mass. Quite touching attempt to grapple with this cultural oddity by a foreign student who has never seen such a thing in her homeland.
