The union representing college and workers at Ontario’s 24 public faculties might start the brand new yr on the picket line.
The Ontario Public Service Staff Union (OPSEU) introduced late Wednesday afternoon that it had acquired a requested no-board report from the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
With a 16-day clock now counting down, OPSEU might interact in work motion as quickly as Saturday, January 4, 2025.
OPSEU stated it was dedicated to proceed bargaining to keep away from disrupting the beginning of the winter 2025 semester.
“College proposals heart on the foundations of high quality schooling, much less precarity, higher wages, enhanced job safety, and an finish to the unpaid labour that the workload process drive recognized the universities at present obtain, all whereas costing lower than 1 / 4 of what the province will spend on a brand new luxurious spa in Toronto,” learn a press release posted on the OPSEU’s web site.
The School Employer Council represents the universities, together with St. Clair School, Fanshawe School, Georgian School, and Lambton School.
“We stay hopeful that an settlement might be reached with the bargaining group to offer stability for college students, staff, and the larger School neighborhood,” learn a press release from the council.
The union is in search of a discount in classroom instructing time and a most of 29 weeks of accessible instructing time in a yr. Physician Laurie Rancourt, the Chair of the CEC administration bargaining group, stated that would cut back class time by 25 per cent. OPSEU can also be in search of a wage enhance for members.
A report from the Workload Job Drive in 2022 stated workloads have elevated, with partial-load college performing duties exterior of their contracts and unpaid time beyond regulation for counsellors and librarians.
In response to the council, the union’s final settlement provide amounted to new annual prices and a pointy enhance within the faculties’ complete tutorial prices.
The council says mediation classes are scheduled to start on Monday, January 6.
-with recordsdata from Adelle Loiselle
