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TORONTO — Both parties are expressing some satisfaction with an arbitrated collective agreement between Ontario college faculty and the province's 24 publicly-funded colleges.
After a stalemate developed in bargaining, the College Employer Council and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union's college faculty division agreed last March to enter unconditional interest arbitration to avoid a system-wide strike. OPSEU says it includes significant improvements in the areas of equity and job security for contract faculty, and "significant gains beyond what the employer was offering during bargaining.""Despite the unconstitutional restraints of Bill 124, this may represent the most significant gains that any postsecondary faculty association has achieved in bargaining since the pandemic began," said OPSEU President JP Hornick.