Canadore President George Burton called the faculty strike at Ontario colleges "unnecessary" in a news release Sunday night.
"We appreciate that students are frustrated that OPSEU CAAT Academic called this strike," said Burton. "The colleges' final offer is responsive to what we have heard at the bargaining table and fair to our faculty."
Burton says that it is regrettable that the union chose not to take the colleges' final offer to its members for a vote.
About 12,000 faculty will be on the picket line Monday morning after talks between OPSEU and the College Employer Council failed to produce a tentative collective agreement.
There are presently 108 full-time faculty members employed at Canadore and another hundred or so that are only getting part-time work.
See: Canadore profs could strike Monday
“On October 14, we presented Council with a streamlined offer that represented what faculty considers to be the bare minimum we need to ensure quality education for students and treat contract faculty fairly,” said JP Hornick, chair of the union bargaining team. “We carefully crafted a proposal that responded to Council’s concerns about costs in a fair and reasonable way.
To view the union’s most recent offer visit www.collegefaculty.org.
Full details o the colleges' final offer can be found at https://thecouncil.on.ca/.
