As nearly half a million community college students return to class Monday across Ontario, fear of a teachers’ strike has prompted plans for a province-wide student walkout Tuesday, and moved a group of professors to take the unusual step of launching a website that openly urges colleagues to vote No to job action.
Upset that colleges imposed a new contract last fall when bargaining faltered – a right colleges won in 2008 – the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union will hold a strike vote Wednesday across all 24 colleges and could walk off the job by early February, said union spokesman Ted Montgomery, whose members teach more than 150,000 full-time and about 300,000 part-time students.
It would be the second college strike in four years. A strike in March 2006 cancelled classes for three weeks.
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