The College Employer Council and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union have reached a tentative agreement on August 29 for Ontario colleges’ faculty teaching contracts.

Details of the agreement will not be revealed until a ratification vote, which is scheduled later this month, however.

“This is very positive news, especially as our students begin the new school year,” said Fanshawe College President Peter Devlin in an email.

The OPSEU represents more than 12,000 faculty members at Ontario’s 24 colleges. The last faculty strike was in 2006.

“We are very pleased to have reached this agreement ahead of the contract expiry of August 31, as we welcome hundreds of thousands of students to our campuses across the province next week,” said Sonia Del Missier, Chair of the Colleges’ Bargaining Team.

“This agreement continues to recognize the value we place in our faculty while respecting the financial challenges facing the sector.”