Ontario college teachers are voting on a final contract offer today. If instructors reject the contract, a strike at colleges across the province is likely.
The latest offer includes a 5.9 per cent wage increase over three years. Ontario's colleges have said if that offer is rejected, they will not return to the bargaining table.
If members reject the contract, they could be walking the picket lines one week from today. A potential strike would end classes for 200,000 full-time students across Ontario.
In eastern Ontario, a strike would affect students enrolled at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Perth and Pembroke; La Cite Collegiale in Ottawa; Loyalist College in Belleville; and St. Lawrence College in Cornwall, Brockville and Kingston.
The head negotiator for OPSEU calls the current deal "terrible" and is urging the province's 9,000 community college teachers to vote against it.
Ted Montgomery says his team is ready to return to the bargaining table and settle the dispute with the help of an arbitrator.
With files from The Canadian Press
