The bargaining team for Ontario's 24 public colleges has rejected the latest contract offer from OPSEU aimed at averting a province-wide faculty strike on Monday.
The College Employer Council says the union proposals -- including a nine per cent wage increase over three years -- would ultimately cost an additional 400-million dollars a year.
The council's bargaining team is calling on the union to work with it this weekend to finalize a deal based on the colleges' final offer -- which it says is the only path to a settlement that would avoid a strike.
OPSEU rejected that offer earlier this week when it set a strike deadline of 12:01 a-m Monday for the more than 12-thousand college professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians it represents.