U of M faculty to strike after negotiations reach impasse day before deadline: union
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Faculty at Manitoba's largest university are on the verge of a strike after their union says it has reached an "impasse" in its contract negotiations, one day before a strike deadline.
Mediation had "failed to produce an agreement that prioritized faculty recruitment and retention," the University of Manitoba Faculty Association said in a news release on Monday.
Last month, union members voted to authorize strike action, with a deadline set for Nov. 2.
"The University of Manitoba administration has chosen not to invest in the future of our faculty and our university, leaving us no choice except to strike," Orvie Dingwall, UMFA President, wrote in the release.
The union represents 1,200 professors, instructors, archivists and librarians at the university.
In the release, the union reiterated its call on newly elected Progressive Conservative Leader Heather Stefanson to abandon the provincial government's wage mandate, which the union has said interferes with its negotiations.
On Saturday, supporters of the union gathered outside Victoria Inn in west Winnipeg, where the Progressive Conservatives were announcing their new leader and next premier of Manitoba.
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