McGill University is threatening to cancel law school classes for the rest of the semester if it can't reach an agreement with a striking faculty union by Monday. The university says it will drop its legal challenge of the faculty’s right to unionize if the union agrees to negotiate working conditions collectively with other employee associations at the school.
McGill University is threatening to cancel law school classes for the rest of the semester if it can't reach an agreement today with a faculty union that has been on strike since August.Posted: Sep 30, 2024 1:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
"It's unfathomable, the resistance they are presenting to a very basic right of workers to organize in their workplace. It's a constitutional right." The university says it will drop its legal challenge of the faculty's right to unionize, one of AMPL's key demands, if the union agrees to negotiate working conditions collectively with other employee associations at the school.
Anker said her union is backed by others and has the financial resources to pay the 43 striking staff members a stipend should the semester be cancelled, but the hope is that a solution will be found. McGill aimed to resolve the strike by Oct. 1 to adjust fall courses, making an offer to AMPL that included assurances regarding certification and a "federated" system involving new associations. If AMPL doesn't accept the offer, McGill will implement contingency plans to address course cancellations, he says.
Quebec's labour tribunal certified the law professors' union in November 2022, but the union has yet to secure its first collective agreement.McGill's law faculty is the first group of professors to unionize at the university, though most non-faculty staff are unionized. Since the law faculty union was formed, professors in the departments of education and arts have also filed for union certification.
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