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| loca |
| quote: | 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. |
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| 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 ing joke. |
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| EvilTree |
| ^Labour distruptions happens. |
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| KaiLee |
| So apparently our food supplier for our residence cafeteria is on strike, and we're running out of food.... |
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| loca |
| quote: | 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 ing 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. |
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| PartEgurl |
| I am bored too ! I dont have any projects I could get started on because I am in the middle of a semester ! |
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| milos |
| 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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| Misanthrope |
| quote: | Originally posted by milos
from your posts i'd have no idea you were not from around here casue your English is so.... Canadianized |
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| JB1 |
Students may face weekend classes
Part of plan to make up lost time: Union
Two sides in college strike still not talking
Mar. 11, 2006. 01:00 AM
DANIEL GIRARD
EDUCATION REPORTER
Ontario college students, now losing classes because of a teachers' strike, may be forced to go to school on Saturdays and Sundays to make up for lost time if the dispute drags on.
Insisting all will be done to ensure more than 150,000 students complete their semester before summer, Ontario Public Service Employees Union bargaining chair Ted Montgomery said the term may be extended by a week, the exam period shortened and both days of the weekend used for classes.
"I know that's not comfortable for students and neither is it for faculty," Montgomery told reporters at a news conference. "But I'm not suggesting, and I don't understand the colleges to be suggesting, that there are plans to extend into summer.
"There would be a short extension certainly and that has an impact that we would rather not see. But that's what we've been forced into."
About 9,100 teachers, counsellors and librarians walked off the job at Ontario's 24 colleges on Tuesday in a dispute over class sizes and workload. They've been without a contract since last August. No new talks are scheduled.
Montgomery announced yesterday that OPSEU is filing a bad-faith bargaining claim against the colleges, which are represented in talks by the College Compensation and Appointment Council. The union is accusing them of "provoking the strike" by reintroducing in their final offer last Monday workload provisions previously rejected by the union membership.
He also called on the provincial government "to become more involved" by urging the colleges to come up with a new offer that could kick-start talks.
Colleges and Universities Minister Chris Bentley said the province has no plans to intervene by legislating teachers back to work. He reiterated his call for the two sides to resume talks.
Bentley, who had to cancel a long-planned family holiday to Egypt because of the strike, said he wouldn't stand in the way of weekend classes after the strike so students can catch up.
Rick Miner of Seneca College, chair of the colleges' committee of presidents, called the union's bad-faith bargaining allegations "part of the game" in a contract dispute.
The colleges are drawing up contingency plans for making up classes after a lengthy strike, Miner said. They will make some public statements in the next week or so, he said.
There might be "some cases" of weekend classes if the strike drags on, Miner said. But with an estimated half of college students working part-time or full-time, often on weekends, it's "just not practical" to require all of them to come to class on Saturdays and Sundays, he added.
Tyler Charlebois of the College Student Alliance said weekend classes would be "a real problem" for many of those attending college.
"It's just another example of how students, who are missing their education through no fault of their own, are being used as pawns in this dispute," he said. "Instead of worrying about how classes will be made up, the two sides should be focusing on ending this strike."
With files from Robert Benzie
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| Misanthrope |
that's ing great.
so when will I be able to work at my job?
:rolleyes: |
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| Dancing*Queen |
| There is no way they can enforce classes on the weekends....people work on weekends so they can pay for school. I don't see that actually happening. |
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