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Canadore College President responds to college faculty provincial strike

Canadore College will not let any students miss out on their academic year.

College President and CEO George Burton says they will have a plan in place to make sure all Canadore students get the education they paid for. This follows an announcement from the OPSEU College Faculty Union representatives that over 12,000 full and part-time faculty members are on strike across Ontario. Burton says he feels the offer presented to the union by the College Employer Council was a fair one.

Faculty members are on strike after negotiations between the College Faculty Union and the Council broke down on Sunday night. The representatives of the Union are asking for a nine per cent increase to the maximum full-time faculty salary over three years, which would bring it to over $116,000. The CEC says this increase doesn’t fall in line with other public sector salaries. The counter offer from CEC is a 7.5 per cent increase over four years, bringing the salary cap to over $115,000.

The union also wants to level out the contract and full-time positions. Right now contract positions are about 70 per cent with the rest being full-time. The union wants these positions to be 50/50 to offer more job security with full-time positions. CEC says this will mean over 3,000 contract workers will have to be let go in this transition. CEC says overall the cost of these changes will run over $250 million, which will lead to Ontario colleges spending over $1 billion annually on salaries.

You can find more details on how this strike will affect Canadore students in Parry Sound here.

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