big day tommorow for ontario colleges

tomorrow is when the faculty is voting on a strike mandate, what that means is if the faculty feels like the discussions are being "ignored" they will go on strike. I have no experience with strikes and I have one question. what happens if the strike lasts 1 moth, will school continue into summer?

anyone else being effected by this?

Pilgor said:

tomorrow is when the faculty is voting on a strike mandate, what that means is if the faculty feels like the discussions are being "ignored" they will go on strike. I have no experience with strikes and I have one question. what happens if the strike lasts 1 moth, will school continue into summer?

anyone else being effected by this?

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I would have been. I live in Ottawa, ON (Algonquin College) and was supposed to be in second semester now. Sadly I got such low marks in first semester that I got booted out of my program. Since that's the second program I have been kicked out of I am suspended from OSAP (student loan people) and have to drop out of school till I can pay for it myself. I graduated high school in June '07 and worked for one year then went to Photonics engineering in Sept '08. I failed out of that and went to Computer Systems Tech (both at Algonquin) but failed out of that even quicker. So now I am stuck with huge debt and unable to go to school. Guess at least I avoid the potential strike.

Pilgor said:

tomorrow is when the faculty is voting on a strike mandate, what that means is if the faculty feels like the discussions are being "ignored" they will go on strike. I have no experience with strikes and I have one question. what happens if the strike lasts 1 moth, will school continue into summer?

anyone else being effected by this?

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Yes I would imagine the program will continue into the summer. If North American Uni. programs are like ours here in Europe, each subjects demands a given amount of practical/school hours in order for the student to pass the subject and the year.

IIRC when I was living in NJ, they had an incredibly tough system where only 5 days were excusable (high school)...I am assuming that it is similar for you Canadians...

Ontario college teachers vote in favour of a strike - 680News

the mandate has been voted on, which means they can go on strike whenever they want, but they have to give 5 days notice.

wow... if you have to do extra time, that sucks. Well maybe a vacation isn't all bad.

will