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Ontario College Support Strike Triggers Campus Cancellations and Fanshawe Convocation Delay

The dispute centers on job‑security demands the employer calls unsustainable.

College support staff picket outside George Brown College's St. James Campus in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan
Striking St. Clair College workers and union supporters are shown at the entrance to the college's main Windsor campus on Cabana Road on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025.
Striking St. Clair College workers block a vehicle from entering the Windsor main campus’s Talbot Road entrance on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, during a day-of-action event.
A St. Clair College student leaves the institution’s main Windsor campus after classes were cancelled Thursday morning due to strike action.

Overview

  • Province‑wide rallies entered week four of a strike by about 10,000 full‑time support staff, with roughly 400 people at Humber’s North campus and road closures reported by Toronto police.
  • Mohawk cancelled classes and activities at its Fennell campus and St. Clair halted classes at its south Windsor campus, while Algonquin warned of blocked or delayed access to its Ottawa campus.
  • Fanshawe postponed its Nov. 4–5 convocation to June 2026, citing the ongoing strike by support staff.
  • OPSEU says talks collapsed this week after employers declared an impasse over job‑security language, while the College Employer Council says the union reversed course during mediation.
  • The employer estimates the union’s proposals would add more than $900 million in costs, a figure the union disputes, against a backdrop of shrinking international enrolment and constrained funding.