Ontario Colleges Strike

The union for Ontario's community colleges teachers has reportedly rejected a ``final'' offer, but collegeswant the teachers to vote on it.

Ontario's College Compensation and Appointments Council says it made the offer to OPSEU on Wednesday after several days of talks.

After the union rejected the offer, college management asked OPSEU to bring it back to the about 9,000 members for a vote.

The council says the offer was better than previous ones because it shortens the contract to three years, instead of four, and offers a slightly higher salary increase.

However, the council didn't agree to many of non-salary demands, such as adding more preparation time or changes to workload.

A strike would curtail classes for at least 200,000 full-time students.