FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2006
Part-time Ontario
college staff to form new association
TORONTO –Delegates
representing faculty and support staff from Ontario’s 24
colleges will meet this weekend to form an association
representing the 16,000 part-time Ontario college employees
currently barred from joining a union.
The new association will
begin a membership drive early in 2007, and intends to mount
a political campaign to change the current law.
This week, the Geneva-based
International Labour Organization (ILO) ruled that these
workers should have the right to bargain collectively. The
ILO also said the McGuinty government should move rapidly to
make the needed legislative changes to allow this.
The delegates to the meeting
will be available for media questions and an interesting
photo opportunity:
Who: New College
part-timers association representing 16,000 workers
When: Sunday,
November 19, 1:00 p.m.
Where: Delta
Chelsea Hotel, Gerrard at Yonge, Rosetti Room
-30-
For information please
contact:
David Cox, OPSEU
Communications 1-800-268-7376 x 8314 or 416-788-9197
(cell)
