U of M professors set tentative strike date
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University of Manitoba academics have marked March 10 on their calendars as the start of a potential strike if they do not reach a new deal with their employer before March 7.
Manitoba’s largest faculty association, which represents 1,300 professors, instructors and librarians, announced Friday that it had set a bargaining deadline of March 6 at 11:59 p.m.
The key issues on the table include working conditions, workload and child care, UMFA said in a news release that warned against the current state of recruitment and retention.
“The university’s administration can afford to pay faculty competitive wages, to keep workload reasonable, and to make child care accessible to our members,” union president Erik Thomson said in the release.
“The administration is not prioritizing the quality of student education.”
The faculty association has been in contract negotiations with U of M administration since August. Negotiations are slated to resume Monday — one week before a tentative strike.