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College students want 'holiday' to end By Heather Crawford Citizen staff The Ontario college strike has been on-going since March 7 and students would like it to end. Katie Aitchison, of Brussels who is studying early childhood education at Georgian College in Barrie said she is worried about losing a co-op placement due to the strike. "If they don't resolve the strike by the end of the week then we will lose our placements," she said. The management is working at pushing back the placements and accommodating the students so that they don't lose the opportunities she said. "I would like them to go back. It's kind of an inconvenience. We're missing classes and falling behind." Currently several colleges are devising a semester completion strategy. For Fanshawe College this could mean management stepping in to teach classes. According to a preSs release issued by Fanshawe, each college will have semester completion A little support Little ones like the support when they make their way around the arena. This tyke was enjoying the day hosted by Brussels Lions on Sunday afternoon as a kickoff for the organization's 60th anniversary. (Bonnie Gropp photo) strategies in place to address various circumstances. "College staff will begin advising students next week on the best approach for successful semester completion starting with students who are in their final semester," it said. Conestoga college president John Tibbits said finishing the year is the management's main priority. "Providing our students with the means to complete their semester successfully is of the utmost importance right now," he said. "As it unfolds, the semester completion strategy will make this possible." Aitchison said Georgian has a website where the students can access any assignments due and dates when they are expected to be completed. "They froze the site so that teachers couldn't add any assignments," she said. Still, she is expected to have the work already posted completed for when the strike ends. In the meantime she came back home to Brussels. According to the Ontario College Student Alliance (CSA), the impact of the strike is not limited to students. "If this strike continues and students do not finish their year on time, Ontario's entire economy will suffer," Matt Jackson, president of the CSA said at a press conference on March 16 in Toronto. "Our economy relies on the college system to train 44,000 new graduates each year." Jackson also noted that the strike has already affected students who have jobs on campus and depend on an income from that job. "[The strike]. has resulted in serious financial hardship for many students who live week-to-week and desperately depend on these jobs to help them fund their post-secondary education," he said. • There. are 9,100 full-time faculty members from 24 Ontario colleges on strike affecting more than 150,000 students. The faculty members, represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) have been going head to head with the College Compensation and Appointments Council (CCAC) since October. CCAC reports on their website • that OPSEU threatened to strike at that time. Before Christmas they offered a 12.6 per cent increase raising salaries to $94,277 by 2009 in order to-avoid a strike but OPSEU members would not accept, they report on their website. According to the OPSEU site, professors, counselors and librarians make $44,285 to start and it takes 18 years to reach the top rate of $82,299 which 27 per cent of the faculty -are receiving. A college instructor makes $32,077 as a starting salary and it takes 10 years to reach the top rate salary of $54,459, the site stated. The point of contention seems to be the workload more than the money. According to the CCAC, OPSEU is asking for the workload to be modified for less contact hours and smaller class sizes. "As long as these demands are on the table no settlement can be reached," they said. At the March 16 conference, the CSA gave a list of 12 recommendations for the parties involved in the strike. These include wanting the two parties involved to return to the bargaining table and discuss getting the students back in the classroom; that the colleges provide students with details• of their semester completion strategies; and that premier Dalton McGuinty raise the funding per college student from the current provincial level of approximately $7,300 to the national average of approximately $9,600. According to the CSA, the Ontario government funding for college students is $2,586 less than a high school student and $2,100 less than a university student. On Monday, March 20, the two parties involved in the collective bargaining sat down for another round of talks. The meeting took place after a student rally and an OPSEU rally in Toronto on March 16. No agreement had been reached as of press time. There T have been two college strikes in Ontario in the past. In 1984, faculty members went on strike for 23 days before back-to- work legislation was passed because the College Relations. Commission determined that the strike was adversely affecting students ,completing their academic study. In 1989, after 27 days, the parties agreed to a process for ending the strike without back-to-work legislation. k'D PEW HOLLAND Yew muss — CNH Capital You'll work so efficiently with a TN-A Series tractor, you may start looking for more to do! 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