Ontario Community Colleges labouring under a strike by OPSEU-organized faculty say they will take their offer directly to the teachers who have been without salaries since October 18. The bargaining team chair Sonia Del Missier said the latest offer “addressed all faculty priorities” and accused the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) of ‘stonewalling’ the bargaining process. “We need to end this strike and get students back in the classroom. We have asked the Labour Board to schedule a vote and let our faculty decide,” Del Missier said in the release. The sides returned to the bargaining table on Thursday but soon broke up because, says the employer’s side, the union is unresponsive to its offer. The union has been seeking greater fulltime employment, more job security and a stronger say in academic decision making. The colleges say they have responded.
