A strike threat has been made by the union representing faculty at Ontario 24 public colleges including St. Clair College in Windsor and Chatham.
OPSEU says 16-thousand members will walk off the job at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, March 18 if the College Employer Council (CEC) does not agree to voluntary binding arbitration.
JP Hornick, chair of the OPSEU bargaining team, says faculty are desperately trying to avoid a strike but the CEC is refusing to bargain or be reasonable.
Union members rejected a final offer presented by the council last month.
A strike at Ontario colleges in 2017 lasted 5-weeks, impacting half-a-million students.