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College students demand strike compensation

NEWS RELEASE COLLEGE STUDENT ALLIANCE ********************* College students relieved after weeks of uncertainty in province-wide faculty strike TORONTO, March 24 - After 18 days, Ontario college students can finally breathe a sigh of relief - they w
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NEWS RELEASE

COLLEGE STUDENT ALLIANCE

********************* College students relieved after weeks of uncertainty in province-wide faculty strike TORONTO, March 24 - After 18 days, Ontario college students can finally breathe a sigh of relief - they will be heading back to the classroom to finish the education that they started back in January 2006. "The College Student Alliance (CSA) head office has been overwhelmed with inquiries from anxiety-ridden college students and their parents, wondering if the semester is going to be lost," says Matt Jackson, President of the CSA.

"In addition to the hundreds of calls and e-mails, our campaign Web site - www.collegestrike.com generated over the past few months, we received over 10,500,000 hits. I hope the government has recognized the stress this has caused students and their families; and will commit to working with us to develop a province-wide Student Bill of Rights which would outline a concrete plan as to what would happen in the event of a work stoppage." On the advice of the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities and Premier McGuinty, both sides will now be working with an arbitrator/mediator to finally get a resolution in place.

"Students can finally fully focus on their studies and teachers can get back to delivering high quality education," says Tyler Charlebois, Director of Advocacy. "Students will now be looking to the McGuinty government and all parties to ensure that their remaining demands are acted upon to ensure that students will never again have their semester or graduation jeopardized as a result of a labour dispute." The McGuinty government and colleges must provide all students affected by the strike with tuition and ancillary fee rebates prorated on a program-by-program basis for the lost class time and a reimbursement for all extraordinary expenses incurred as a result of any expansion or contraction of the semester.

This compensation should include, but not be limited to, items such as: additional residence fees, incremental child care costs, loss of earnings, and increased rental expenses. To learn more about the students' perspective and demands, visit www.collegestrike.com The College Student Alliance (CSA) is an advocacy and services organization which has been proudly serving Ontario's college students since 1967.

The CSA currently represents 15 colleges and 22 student councils with over 100,000 full-time student members throughout the province.

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College strike is over - classes resume Monday


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