OPSEU issues notice to strike as of Jan. 9 [Video]

Following months of anticipation, discussion, and bargaining, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) is one step closer to walking off the job.

On Oct. 1, the contract expired for 15,000 full-time and part-time college faculty across the province represented by OPSEU.

At the union’s request, the Ministry of Labour has issued a No-Board report that paved the way for labour disruption and picket lines as early as Jan. 4.

On Friday, the union officially issued notice that as of Jan. 9, the union will be taking labour action. 

OPSEU said the following in an online release:

The CEC continues to table language that works against faculty interests at a time where colleges are threatening frontline workers with austerity and the majority of courses being delivered by faculty who work on precarious contracts, with no job security and little to no benefits… We love our work. We want to be in our classrooms, labs, libraries, and offices, supporting students. But our work can’t come at the …