Ontario college strike ends as back-to-work legislation passed - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]Hundreds of thousands of college students are expected to be back in class this week after the provincial government passed back-to-work legislation Sunday to end a five-week strike by Ontario college faculty. The Liberal government first attempted to introduce the six-page page bill Thursday evening after college faculty overwhelmingly rejected the College Employer Council's latest offer by 86 per cent. But unanimous consent of all parties was needed, and the NDP refused, leading the government to introduce the legislation Friday. All parties agreed to a special weekend sitting to debate the bill.[/quote] [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/strike-end-1.4409483[/url] 5 weeks of nothing ok

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail this semester unless the curriculum is significantly reworked, which won't happen. :surrender:

The CEC are mostly to blame for this strike in the first place and they get away with nothing to stop them. They barely tried to negotiate and threw bad contracts until the government forced arbitration. Only the NDP tried to oppose it but they're so small compared to both the liberals and conservatives passing it.

I think a refund is in order, I find it pretty annoying that some of you folks will have to rush though this semester after 5 weeks of nothing. It doesn't hurt to refresh things then does it?

Fucking CUNTS I want my damn money back.

The worst part is everyone saying that this bill is FOR us when the students are getting heavily screwed over.

What if they just continue to strike?

[QUOTE=ultra_bright;52907307]What if they just continue to strike?[/QUOTE] They get heavily fined per day. It's over.

[QUOTE=thepwnwar;52907345]They get heavily fined per day. It's over.[/QUOTE] I'm curious what the legislation is exactly. It seems really stupid to force people to work by fining them. It's like saying "all burger flippers that go on strike for higher pay will be fined $2,000 a day." and claiming "People need to eat!".

So, what exactly were they protesting? The article seems to imply they were protesting the fact 70% of university staff are casual and part timers. Not sure how that is supposed to be helped without huge (read impossible) amounts of money.

[QUOTE=download;52907429]So, what exactly were they protesting? The article seems to imply they were protesting the fact 70% of university staff are casual and part timers. Not sure how that is supposed to be helped without huge (read impossible) amounts of money.[/QUOTE] Colleges (Or at least at the one I went to) have a stupid amount of full time Administration staff that are draining funds from the college, but for some reason, the colleges insist on keeping them all while cutting out programs and reducing pay / working time for the actual professors.

[QUOTE=download;52907429]So, what exactly were they protesting? The article seems to imply they were protesting the fact 70% of university staff are casual and part timers. Not sure how that is supposed to be helped without huge (read impossible) amounts of money.[/QUOTE] College's are hiring part time staff, making them work full time but only paying them part time wages They should just cancel the semester since no student wants this semester to go to the 22th December, when original it was over on the 16th

The amount of people that sided with the colleges on this pisses me off so much. The entire situation sucks ass for pretty much everyone involved; but far too many people were calling the teachers greedy for wanting to protect their fucking rights by rejecting offers that didn't meet their demands 100%.

My college is only giving us an extra week to do classes this semester, meaning we lost the full 5-weeks. So what the fuck did I just pay for? Also yeah no extra work because the teachers couldn't email us. So we might as well have to restart, god forbid anybody has an actually difficult course. I would honestly have rather lost the whole semester then received a half-assed one.

[QUOTE=Te Great Skeeve;52907563]My college is only giving us an extra week to do classes this semester, meaning we lost the full 5-weeks. So what the fuck did I just pay for? Also yeah no extra work because the teachers couldn't email us. So we might as well have to restart, god forbid anybody has an actually difficult course. I would honestly have rather lost the whole semester then received a half-assed one.[/QUOTE] Join the class action lawsuit against the uni.

I was affected by this. Wasted time, wasted money, all for nothing, essentially. Fuck them.

Cool. Hundreds of thousands of students now will be receiving sub-par education compared to their peers regardless of the fact that the same amount was payed because of the systems stubbornness. *clap clap*

Despite sympathizing with students affected by this, despite getting affected by this myself, this still isn't the outcome I wanted. So... What? When the unions try to negotiate a better, more fair deal for the qualified, educated teaching professionals, when those negotiations break down to the point they're forced to strike, all the colleges have to do now is stall for time, safe in the knowledge that the government will punish the teachers and not the college? Good god I hate the fucking Ontario liberals. The Conservatives are even worse, but sometimes it feels like there's no difference between Wynne and the Tories. It is a bad, bad idea to have teachers, of all people, who are striking be forced to go back to work. They're intellectuals. They can and will rebel. And the ones who suffer for it will be the paying students. I do hope there'll be a lawsuit over this, and that the colleges get sodomized by the courts.

[QUOTE=Killer monkey;52907182]I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail this semester unless the curriculum is significantly reworked, which won't happen. :surrender:[/QUOTE] Sounds like you need to get in touch with your student unions.

This sounds like a terrible precedent to make.

My girlfriend is in the same boat here. Got fucked over for 5 weeks and wants her money back. What they mentioned was that the remainder of this semester will extend into January so It's not likely going to devolve into a refund fest.

[url=http://www.cp24.com/news/students-who-withdraw-from-college-due-to-strike-will-get-full-tuition-refund-province-1.3685240]Withdraw from college for a refund[/url] as long as you cite the strike as the reason