Looming strike at Fanshawe could impact students [Video]

Students at Fanshawe College say that they’re concerned they’ll be caught in the middle of a labour dispute that could affect their school year.

Fanshawe College Pre-Health student Nawal Hassan said that unfortunately, it feeks all too familiar, “I feel like if they were to go on strike it would definitely prolong, you know this whole kind of like COVID 19 situation again…” referring to gaps and delays in learning in recent years. “[Just] because of the time and duration of the extended period of our program.”

Her friend, Pre-Health student Wadang Manyuant, is also concerned about advancing to the next stage in her academic career, “It’s an eight-month certificate between the whole year, and we’re using that to be able to go to an advanced diploma like to university or something. So, if the teachers were to go on strike that would kind of lengthen the certificate, and kind …