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SHERIDAN OAKVILLE WHAAT!!!

think we will get a partial tution refund for the missed class time???
-carney

I wouldn't count on that

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Originally posted by dnmr think we will get a partial tution refund for the missed class time??? -carney

no.....up to two weeks will be tacked onto the end of the semester

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Originally posted by dnmr think we will get a partial tution refund for the missed class time??? -carney

That's my boy, Carney... thinking like how LARRY SMITH would have you! LOL

I <3 Larry Smith. Best thing about my UW experience!

I

miss

the radio station @ school


I can smell the booth now...*sigh*

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Originally posted by KaiLee no.....up to two weeks will be tacked onto the end of the semester

they wouldnt be able to though for my program cause most of my program takes place in a shop which is reserved for apprentices when were done
i feel that i should be intitled to a refund if the are unable to make up lost class time

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Ontario colleges are disappointed that the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) has chosen to turn down a good offer and unnecessarily disrupt the school year for 150,000 full-time students. �The colleges have provided a good offer to OPSEU that increases the maximum salary for faculty to more than $94,000, with no increase to workload,� said Dr Robert Turner, President and CEO of the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. �There is no reason for a strike and we are disappointed that OPSEU has chosen to unnecessarily disrupt the students� school year.� The colleges have been negotiating with OPSEU for more than a year. The key elements of the colleges� offer to OPSEU are: * A 12.6-per-cent increase in salary over four years, which would move the new maximum salary to $94,277 by April 2009 * An increase over four years for two-step coordinators (faculty who have additional coordinating duties) that would move their new maximum salary to $99,303 * No increase to workload, which would maintain the average teaching time in the classroom at 14 hours per week. The colleges are investing in quality improvements, including hiring new faculty. Currently, the ratio of full-time faculty to students at Ontario colleges is 23 to one. The average class size in Ontario colleges is 28 students per class. The colleges� offer to OPSEU would ensure that Ontario college faculty will be the best paid in the country, despite the fact that Ontario colleges receive the lowest per-student revenues in Canada. �OPSEU should focus on what is best for students and return to the bargaining table,� Turner said. �The OPSEU strike at Ontario�s 24 colleges is unnecessary and is unfair to our students.�

A maximum of $95k/year for an average of 14 hours a week teaching?

Sign me up.

Yus! time for endless partying

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker A maximum of $95k/year for an average of 14 hours a week teaching? Sign me up.

Yea, but that doesn't include all the work outside of the classroom
i.e. marking, preparation, planning, assisting students, etc.

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Originally posted by Candeeman Yea, but that doesn't include all the work outside of the classroom i.e. marking, preparation, planning, assisting students, etc.

I still don't see how or why that's not a good deal.

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Originally posted by ++ EGO ++ I still don't see how or why that's not a good deal.

From my understanding they don't care about a pay increase (atleast before the offer lol). That's not the reason the strike started. The main reason is that they want them to hire more full-time teachers so the workload is reduced.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 And people wonder why I think unions should be abolished?

that is the stupidist thing i've ever heard you say! do we really need to bring up the history of our country and the ppl who faught for unions and the rights of works?


i absolutely dont' agree with this strike by any means, but a statment like that is very bold

Stupid Question
i'm lazy...

anyway,

are we going back to school on monday?

or I guess we wait till sunday night to find out?

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Originally posted by Misanthrope Stupid Question i'm lazy... anyway, are we going back to school on monday? or I guess we wait till sunday night to find out?

www.collegestrike.ca

Just check up for updates here and there.

Hope it helps.

I'm bored now.....

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Originally posted by Misanthrope Stupid Question i'm lazy... anyway, are we going back to school on monday? or I guess we wait till sunday night to find out?

Doesn't look like we are as neither side has gone back to the bargaining table yet.

Okay at first I didn't mind this strike...but now after thinking about it for awhile it's beginning to bother me.

I travelled all the way from Taiwan and chose Ontario schools because of their supposed good reputation (hearing this from other people who have gone to school in Ontario, reading up on the schools, etc.).
This being my first semester, I pay out of the ass for school in hopes of receiving a good education....and instead I am forced to sit in my dormroom and do nothing for two weeks or more? I can't go back home like the rest of you that live one or two hours away, it's a 28 hour flight and if we are suddenly back in school, it's another 28 hour flight back. These teachers can keep on striking but after four weeks legislation requires them to go back, nothing could be resolved and we could lose time and money over nothing?
Yes I understand what they are fighting for but if the management really doesn't want to give them this, they won't. All they have to do is wait another 3 weeks and the teachers are forced to go back to the way things were.

In all honesty I have no desire to return to school in Ontario after this, what a fucking joke.

^Labour distruptions happens.

So apparently our food supplier for our residence cafeteria is on strike, and we're running out of food....

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Originally posted by KaiLee Okay at first I didn't mind this strike...but now after thinking about it for awhile it's beginning to bother me. I travelled all the way from Taiwan and chose Ontario schools because of their supposed good reputation (hearing this from other people who have gone to school in Ontario, reading up on the schools, etc.). This being my first semester, I pay out of the ass for school in hopes of receiving a good education....and instead I am forced to sit in my dormroom and do nothing for two weeks or more? I can't go back home like the rest of you that live one or two hours away, it's a 28 hour flight and if we are suddenly back in school, it's another 28 hour flight back. These teachers can keep on striking but after four weeks legislation requires them to go back, nothing could be resolved and we could lose time and money over nothing? Yes I understand what they are fighting for but if the management really doesn't want to give them this, they won't. All they have to do is wait another 3 weeks and the teachers are forced to go back to the way things were. In all honesty I have no desire to return to school in Ontario after this, what a fucking joke.

Well i'm in the same situation. I came from Belgium to study here, am paying way more than anyone else i know to go to college, yet i do understand the profs' points mainly because i've been there, trying to catch a prof in between classes or running home to do more work. It's facking annoying. And like i said before, considering the amount of money people pay to go to school here i think i/they deserve more time than 2 minutes on the street or in a corridor.

I am bored too ! I dont have any projects I could get started on because I am in the middle of a semester !

so one of you is from Belgium, and the other from Taiwan. What makes you want to study here? Where were you born? from your posts i'd have no idea you were not from around here casue your English is so.... Canadianized

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