Professors Strike at Ontario Colleges

About 150,000 students at Ontario's 24 colleges of applied arts and technology are out of the classroom after their professors walked off their jobs last week, and some students are wondering whether the strike will prevent them from graduating on time.

Negotiations between the professors, whose contract expired in August 2005, and the colleges broke down after days of intense talks. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents some 9,100 full-time faculty members at

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