Union reacts after staff laid off, courses cancelled at Conestoga College
Across Ontario's 24 public colleges, more than 10,000 faculty and staff are being let go and more than 600 programs are being cancelled or suspended. Those numbers were released on Wednesday by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which says it's one of the largest mass layoffs in Ontario's history. Conestoga College makes up at least 190 of those layoffs and 82 of the program cancellations. Vikki Poirier, president of OPSEU Local 238, and Leopold Koff, president of OPSEU Local 237, told CBC more about the impacts.