FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mar. 17, 2005
College talks restart
Monday
TORONTO – Negotiations will
resume Monday at 9:30 a.m. in an effort to end the strike in
Ontario’s 24 colleges.
“We hope management got a clear
message from the rallies yesterday,” said Ted Montgomery,
chair of the negotiating team for OPSEU members on college
faculty. “We hope to see a serious and reasonable offer from
them as talks resume on Monday.”
“Quality education remains a
key issue and they have to address that. We say there is a
semester completion strategy: settle,” he said. “And that’s
done by dealing with the quality issue.”
In separate meetings today,
both union and management negotiators met with colleges
minister Chris Bentley. Montgomery said he had a “frank
discussion” with the minister.
The faculty have been without a
contract since Aug. 31, 2005, and have been on strike since
March 7.
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For more information:
David Cox, OPSEU
Communications, 416-788-9197
