THUNDER BAY — The Ontario Liberal Party critic for labour and education says he had a chance to speak with union leaders while in Thunder Bay on Tuesday.

Although Ottawa South MPP John Fraser didn’t specify which unions he was going to be meeting with, he did weigh in on the continuing support staff strike at Ontario’s colleges, including Confederation College.

“This thing that we built, the college system, is being allowed to wither," Fraser told Newswatch during his stop in the city. "The strike is just symptomatic of that.”

For almost a month now, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union have been picketing outside of colleges across Ontario.

Locally, approximately 200 OPSEU Local 731 support staff members from the Thunder Bay Confederation College campus have positio

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