A post-strike letter to University of Manitoba students from UMFA president Mark Hudson
Over a month has passed since members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) closed our picket lines and returned to work in labs,…
UMFA
A historic opportunity squandered: reflections on the UMFA strike settlement
As one of us wrote in these pages a few weeks ago, the recent University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) strike stood to win historically significant…
What’s in store for students now that the strike is over?
Our success this year will depend on how willing both professors and the administration are to fully accommodate students.
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
Graduate students vote to support faculty association
Today, U of M graduate students announced tentative support to faculty in their ongoing strike with administration.
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.