Ontario's roughly 9,000 college instructors have given their union the green light to strike.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union said Wednesday night that about 57 per cent of members who voted supported strike action.
A total of 154 full-time instructors with Confederation College, including two at its Fort Frances campus, participated in the vote.
The vote on whether to give their union a strike mandate came after five months of talks with the colleges broke down December 15.
Ted Montgomery of the OPSEU bargaining team, which represents faculty members, has said a walkout wouldn't happen for at least a month.
For the union, key issues are workload, academic freedom and management's decision in November to impose its offer on the teachers without a vote.
The colleges said in a release that their offer increases salaries by eight per cent over four years and raises the maximum salary to $103,975.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union said Wednesday night that about 57 per cent of members who voted supported strike action.
A total of 154 full-time instructors with Confederation College, including two at its Fort Frances campus, participated in the vote.
The vote on whether to give their union a strike mandate came after five months of talks with the colleges broke down December 15.
Ted Montgomery of the OPSEU bargaining team, which represents faculty members, has said a walkout wouldn't happen for at least a month.
For the union, key issues are workload, academic freedom and management's decision in November to impose its offer on the teachers without a vote.
The colleges said in a release that their offer increases salaries by eight per cent over four years and raises the maximum salary to $103,975.
