October 20, 2017<\/p>\n
Premier Kathleen Wynne
\nRoom 281, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park
\nToronto, Ontario M7A 1A1<\/p>\n
Dear Premier:<\/p>\n
College faculty and over 500,000 Ontario students are disappointed by your inaction as we approach the second week of the labour dispute at colleges throughout the province.<\/p>\n
Students and their families remain in limbo, wondering if their semester will be condensed and if they will be able to complete their program requirements. For those attending college away from home, this uncertainty creates even more anxiety. All the while, college faculty are fighting for fair wages and job security\u2014working conditions that every Ontarian deserves.<\/p>\n
Premier, years of underfunding by your Liberal government have strained finances at colleges throughout Ontario and sharply increased the use of temporary, contract, and part-time instructors. Ontario now ranks last among all Canadian provinces in government per-student funding for universities and colleges. Post-secondary institutions continue to raise tuition fees to the maximum each year in order to mitigate this decline in public funding.<\/p>\n
Throughout your government\u2019s 15 years in office, large class sizes became normalized at colleges throughout Ontario, with more and more classes taught by part-time or contract faculty. Students know that excessive use of contract faculty \u2013 who often string together multiple courses without any job security or benefits, and may not have access to institutional teaching resources \u2013 has a negative impact on the classroom.<\/p>\n
Premier, your Liberal government created the conditions for this labour dispute to occur.\u00a0 With these issues having reached a tipping point, it is simply unacceptable that you will not act now.\u00a0 New Democrats back the call of eight student associations in urging your government to take immediate steps to bring both sides back to the bargaining table so that a settlement that ensures fairness for faculty and students can be reached.<\/p>\n
We urge you to act immediately.<\/p>\n
Regards,
\n[original signed]\nPeggy Sattler, MPP London West
\nAdvanced Education and Skills Development Critic<\/p>\n[original signed]\nCindy Forster, MPP Welland
\nLabour, Fairness and Work Critic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 20, 2017 Premier Kathleen Wynne Room 281, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A1 Dear Premier: College faculty and over 500,000 Ontario students are disappointed by your inaction as we approach the second week of the labour dispute at colleges throughout the province. Students and their families remain in limbo, wondering if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[905],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-2017-college-labour-dispute"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 19:36:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7250,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}