Colleges urge union to let faculty vote on offer
January 29, 2010
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario’s 24 colleges have issued a fresh appeal to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union to let faculty vote on a final contract offer.
The new appeal comes a day after OPSEU said it would not take the offer it rejected directly to the 9,000 teachers.
Ontario’s College Compensation and Appointments Council made the offer to OPSEU on Wednesday after several days of talks.
Dr. Rachael Donovan, chairman of the colleges’ bargaining team, says the offer includes a salary increase of 5.9 per cent, which would raise the top salary to more than $102,000 by September 2011.
In addition, says Donovan, workload protections contained in the last collective agreement would remain intact.
A strike would affect at least 200,000 full-time students across Ontario.