A potential strike by faculty at Ontario's colleges has been averted after the College Employer Council and the Ontario Public Services Employees Union agreed to binding arbitration. The two sides reached an agreement on 'significant benefit gains' but remained at an impasse on other issues, which will now be decided by an arbitrator. Classes will continue as scheduled.
The bargaining agent for Ontario 's 24 public colleges and the union representing faculty have agreed to enter into binding arbitration, avoiding a strike. The College Employer Council and the Ontario Public Services Employees Union met this week in Toronto for mediation following months of bargaining. Some form of labour action could have begun on Thursday.
It said Tuesday that 'significant benefit gains' were agreed upon with the employers but that the sides otherwise remained at an impasse, with the outstanding items to be resolved by the arbitrator. The College Employer Council says classes will continue as scheduled this week. 'It was important to us to provide stability to students at the start of their semester,' Laurie Rancourt, chair of the CEC's bargaining team, said in a statement
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