An agreement has been reached between Ontario college support workers and their employer after more than a month on strike, the union representing the workers says.
The Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU), which represents 10,000 full-time college support staff at Ontario’s 24 public colleges, reached a tentative agreement with the College Employer Council (CEC) nearly five weeks after workers walked off the job on Sept. 11.
Striking workers included librarian technicians, registrar employees, and technology support staff.
The union was in contract talks with the CEC, the provincially mandated bargaining agent for publicly funded colleges, for several months. Some of the main concerns raised by the union were job security and college funding….