U of M students react to university’s revised fall and winter terms
As regular classes resume at the University of Manitoba following a three-week faculty strike, students are coming to terms with the revised academic calendar. Shortly…
labour dispute
After the storm: what happens now that bargaining is over?
Administration and faculty are both essential to the governance and direction of the university.
Friday student rally on campus precedes UMFA, admin agreement
Roughly 200 students joined the picket line and marched into the U of M administrative building as a show of support for the striking University…
UMFA ratifies new collective agreement, classes resume today
Affected classes resume today.
University and faculty reach tentative agreement
Confirmation by UMFA members is not expected until late Monday evening.
Students are minds, bodies, and souls, not customers
If we are not able to deal with students in all their complex and dynamic individualism, then education is merely a commodity and professors are simply cogs in the system.
Not my UMSU
Support who you want on your own time, but dragging 25,676 undergraduate students into labour negotiations is not an appropriate way to represent the student body.
UMFA rejects administration call for membership vote on latest offer
“It kind of felt like they had just taken their ball and gone home” – Mark Hudson, UMFA president
The U of M stands at a historic crossroads
The administration is fighting for a cause it dare not name and seeks to camouflage behind talk of lack of funds.
UMFA labour board complaint alleges provincial interference in collective bargaining
A representative of the Pallister government discouraged the University of Manitoba from entering into mediation discussions with the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), according…