About 12,000 community college faculty are entering the second week of their province wide walk-out that has disrupted the school year for almost half a million students, including 10,000 at Lambton College.
OPSEU 125 Vice President Lisa Bicum says the students are aware that their education is eroding by minimizing teaching inputs.
"One thing we have seen that is really interesting is the upswing in student support across the province and locally," says Bicum. "We're seeing a lot of support and they say they we really appreciate that you're doing this for our education."
Bicum stresses the strike is not about money, but instead the continued decline in the number of full time faculty being replaced by partial load instructors.
The union says the part-time workers do not have any job security, must reapply for the same job every semester and are paid an hourly wage that doesn't cover time spent marking papers or preparing lectures.
There are 126 full-time and 79 partial load faculty at Lambton College.
