It could be 10 days before Ontario college students know if their school year will be disrupted.
Instructors voted yesterday on a so-called final offer.
With about 500 ballots still to be counted, 51 per cent have accepted the deal.
At Algonquin College 55 per cent said yes.
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 late next week. 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.
