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stouffville suntribune thursday march 9 2006 15 strike could mean nurses in summer by teresa latchford staff writer southlake regional hospi tal will be short nurses if the opseu strike results in an extended school year faculty including teach ers counsellors and librari ans at 24 ontario colleges walked off the job earlier this week due to a contract dis pute leaving 150000 students wondering what will happen to their semester with only a month left to go the ontario public service employees union opseu is demanding improvements to its members workload for mula focusing on smaller class sizes the hiring of more fulltime faculty and a wage increase but if an agreement isnt reached soon the school year could be extended into the summer which would delay the hiring of some graduating students such as those in nursing programs hospitals such as southlake wont be able to rely on fresh staff from colleges to complement those nurses graduating from university programs information tenant protection agt call 71 32696 college students would not behired until the follow ing fall putting them at a dis advantage for the entire sum mer we also have students who are doing placement with southlake who cant continue until die strike is over said gary ryan vice- president of human u resources at southlake a placement is designed to allow college students to gain handson experience in their fields of study usually a certain number of hours need to be complet ed to gain the credit we do care about what the teachers are fighting for and it will improve our edu cation but their timing is wrong said steve mattar president of the seneca stu dent federation this is a crucial time dur ing a college students semes ter and thoselooking forward to graduating are antsy about the thought of having the year extended because of the strike he added a key program at seneca which matches grads with housing help centre this message brought to you as a community service of the economist 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currently capped at six more classes means a greater workload and the union claims management is not listening the key issue for the union is not the wage increase but the high stu- denttoteach ratio said larry olivo opseu local 560 representative this is beginning to look like bad bargaining he said it seems like they the coun cil dont want to bargain at- all teachers are pushing for smaller class sizes so students can interact more with facul ty for example mr olivo teaches a class of 41 parale gals students and thinks the class should be cut in half to make handson assignments more effective the union will be putting forward another proposal including the request for a 10percent increase in facul ty in the next few days offer ing a little more flexibility he addedbut the union will not be participating in further talks until the council is ready to address the real issues we would rather be inside with our students mr olivo said but you gottado what you gotta do i think council put 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