The Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) has just confirmed officially that Ontario’s full-time academic staff have voted 51.45% to accept the colleges’ final offer. With the majority of faculty voting to accept the offer the threat of a province-wide strike is now gone.
“The most important task ahead for both the colleges and the faculty will be to put any remaining issues and feelings behind them and get back to focusing on providing students and Ontarians with the education and training needed to prosper in today’s knowledge-based economy,” says Justin Fox, President of the College Student Alliance.
The final vote count was 4473 voted to accept and 4221 voted to reject.
Click here to read the detailed final offer that was accepted by the faculty.
Personally i like it, It benefits the students that actually pay attention in class, take notes and do the work, and weeds out the slackers that sit on facebook and blaze all day, plus there will be less competition in my field of study.
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I think it’s quite amusing all of the students who used the ‘potential’ strike as an excuse not to study, and are ot blaming the ’stress’ for their crappy marks and failing. Maybe if you had of actually studied and did your school work instead of using the ‘threat’ of a strike as an excuse to skip classes and not do you work you wouldn’t be failing. In the end you screwed yourself
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As a student, I for one am disappointed at the outcome of this strike vote. The key bargaining issue at the table was instructor-to-student ratio. Now that faculty has chosen not to strike, it only means that I will be lost in a sea of even more students in a lab where time and instruction is at a premium.
To my fellow students, while you have not lost anything financially or have not lost any time out of your school year, you have definitely lost quality instruction in the future. Those of you in applied programs will suffer the most when the instructor will be too busy helping 40 other students rather than be available to teach you the intricacies of your program.
The future is far from bright.
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Lol first of all your not a student your just another pissed off faculty member that is trying to make a point. Why don’t you just drop this BS and go back to your work.
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I’m dissapointed too. The colleges basically got what they wanted; they save face and still don’t have to change too much.
They don’t care about the fact that students will now be the ones that struggle… oh well right? We still pay our tuition! Doesn’t the fact that 14 out of 24 of the college faculty voted to reject the offer?
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Personally, i’m glad that there is no strike, although the deal the faculty accepted screws us students over. With larger classes and a longer school year, now there will be less personal teacher-student-learning time. I believe that is ridiculas and it just goes to show that as students, we are not the number one priority in which we should be, seeing as we are paying for our education and should be getting the absolute best for our moneys worth.
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What makes you believe that classes will be longer and the academic semster(s) longer?
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There should have been a strike; whether it is my choice or not.
If nearly 50% of faculty do not agree with the offer than something has to be done.
There is so much bullshit that needs to be fixed. Better teachers for one.
I had a teacher for Network Essentials, and he screwed us over for second semester(Nearly the entire class complained about him).
I am not surprised he got fired after one semester, but why was this guy teaching us when he had NO teaching experience. He only had certification, and never went to teachers college or anything.
Thank you for wasting my hard earned money Georgian!
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There should have been a strike, nearly half the faculty didn’t like it so it really isn’t fair to those 50%.
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For me this is a saving grace, being a 2nd career student, having a strike could possibly mean loss of funding, and cutting into the time where i need to be working… college profs (at least the ones i have) don’t deserve anymore than they are getting now, most of them are incapable of teaching what they’re teaching, and also need to have proper english speaking skills.. but that’s just my $0.02
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Is this Doug from Cambrian?
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Theta, I assume you are a teacher who voted to strike… Staff who wanted didnt accept the offer are out of their minds.
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By that argument, if there *was* a strike, it would be unfair to the slightly-more-than-50% that voted not to strike.
In fact I think that 50% is too low, and a serious action like striking should require something closer to two-thirds agreement. Nonetheless, the line was 50%, and it was not met.
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I am a student at Sheridan college in Brampton. I am so happy there is no strike. Cause look at it this way if there was a strike, us students would suffer badly. Like come on, we paid a lot of money to come here for school. To get our careers and our future.. So people who wanted a strike.. your idiots because you wouldn’t care that you either on osap have to pay back or paid with your own money. Like seriously come to your senses.
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Took long enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Its kinda funny that there are more students who are upset about this than if there was a strike because majority of my class say they wanted a strike,
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Yeah i totally agree. My class felt the same way. I don’t know where these students come up with “i hope there is no strike” but deep down, they do
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thank goodness! guess i will buy a metro pass for march lol
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I am glad now lets get back to our education. While we still have one.
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While I am happy for the students currently in school, I still think that 51% is far too low of an accept rate. If half of faculty think something is wrong then maybe there was reason for a strike.
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Ted Montgomery Jeff Arbuss Rod Bain and the rest of the union bargainers should resign, they just received a vote of no confidence. The faculty did not support your call to reject. You should resign, no?
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Glad the outcome was positive. Hopefully the public recognizes now that the majority of faculty do have the students best interest in mind.
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Darn – so close.
Whatever, no big deal.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO STRIKE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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So your bitching about the fact you didn’t have to pace back and fourth to picket, and now your bitching that students aren’t going to get what they deserve. Make up your mind. Your getting a dislike.
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Good Day Mr. Dave
Just clap your hands and smile like they do on the Wheel of Fortune. I’m sure a smart young arse like yourself will thoroughly enjoy the upcoming fall semester with all the changes upcoming. To us professors it makes no difference son. You’ll just have to do a lot more on your own instead of having us Professors babysit smart youg arses like you.
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“We tried to stop the insanity of what’s coming.”
Well you obviously didn’t try hard enough, good job.
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OMG!!!!!!!! Thank God this has turned out this way! Many families would have suffered financialy on both side!
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…and once again, collegestrike.ca breaks the news first, whereas my union and my management haven’t announced jack shit.
Can you guys take over bargaining in 2012? You’re the only people involved in this mess who actually know how to communicate effectively.
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Finally..thank you !
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