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College strike enters week four

No news on talks
2017-11-06 College faculty strike Georgian
Striking faculty at Georgian College on Oct. 15, 2017. Sue Sgambati/BarrieToday

A strike by more than 12,000 Ontario college professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians is entering it's fourth week. 

The College Employer Council and the Ontario Public Services Employees Union returned to the bargaining table last Thursday but there has been no news on talks.

The central issue for faculty is job security.

OPSEU has called for a 50-50 split between the number of full-time faculty and the number of faculty members on contract but the colleges have said that would add more than $250 million in costs each year.

Currently the union says 70 percent of faculty are part-time.

The colleges has offered a four-year-agreement that offers a 7.75 per cent pay increase.

500,000 students have been left out of the classroom since the walkout began Oct. 15.