Toronto - Management made a new offer to the union today. The offer addresses salary, job security and management's needs for increased efficiency.
The highlights of the management offer are as follows:
Salaries: On ratification, faculty will receive a 3% across-the-board increase and those faculty presently at maximum will move up one salary step. There will be a further 2% across-the board increase on September 1, 1999 and an additional step on the salary grid. The cost to the colleges of these increases is $37.2 million.
Job security: Management guarantees no layoffs or reclassifications of existing Professors due to the changes in the Instructor category.
Workload: There will be no change to faculty teaching load, except by voluntary agreement.
Today's announcement of the new management offer follows a mediation session with the management and union bargaining teams. College faculty will be voting on a strike mandate on Thursday, May 21, 1998. If the union receives a strike mandate, college faculty may go on strike this Fall, delaying the start of the 1998-99 academic year for tens of thousands of students.
Ontario's 25 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology have been engaged in collective bargaining for the past two years. A settlement with support staff was reached in September of last year. The current negotiations are with academic staff.
For further information:
John Tibbits
Co-Chair
Management Bargaining Team
(519) 748-3500
Roy Murray
Co-Chair
Management Bargaining Team
(807) 475-6350
Media Contact:
Alice Lytwynchuk
Public Relations
(905) 721-3111 ext. 2117
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