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Students at a community college in Edmundston are seeking financial compensation for a five-week long custodian strike that closed college campuses earlier this year.

Student council president Mylene Roy says some programs will run up to four weeks longer as a result of the strike, leaving students to pay extra rent, food, utilities, transportation and day care.

She has collected 150 signatures on a petition that asks for compensation and legislative changes to ensure a similar strike can't disrupt classes in the future.

Post-Secondary Education Minister Ed Doherty said today in the legislature that he's not aware of any complaints, but said any student with a concern should take it to their principal and it will be dealt with on an individual basis.

Opposition critic Margaret-Ann Blaney says the government should have been prepared with a plan to assist the students.

She says students have lost valuable instruction time and practical experience and now are faced with added costs.