Just days before students head back to class for the new school year, support staff at Ontario's community colleges are on strike.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says it went on strike because the colleges demanded concessions and clawbacks to its existing contract.
But Gerry Barker, chairman of the colleges' bargaining team, says the colleges offered increases for support staff that would take the average salary to more than 59-thousand dollars a year with no concessions.
Anticipating pickets at Confederation College's campus in Fort Frances, the Rainy River District School Board has changed the route for vehicle traffic to Fort High.
Parents, staff and students driving to school are to use the lane by J.W. Walker School off Keating Avenue to enter and leave at the north exit at McIrvine Road.
Buses are to use the same north exit on McIrvine to enter and leave the school.
