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Strike Averted at Ontario Colleges
College Employer Council (CEC) and OPSEU have agreed to enter into binding arbitration with full-time and partial-load professors, instructors, and librarians.
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Ontario College Strike Action is Completely Unnecessary
OPSEU’s threat to plunge Ontario into a province-wide College strike is wholly unnecessary and a deeply disappointing provocation before both sides sit down for mediation, set to resume today.
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Part-Time Support Staff Bargaining Update December 20
The College Employer Council (CEC), representing the 24 Ontario Public Colleges, and CAAT-PTSS, representing part-time support staff, have been in negotiations since January 2024.
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Case Studies

College Demonstrates Commitment to Combat Sexual Violence

In a recent arbitration decision, a public College successfully argued that Sexual Violence in the workplace is conduct that is of such a serious nature that termination is justified in the absence of serious mitigating circumstances.    

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