The Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL) is once again on strike.
Following its eight-week strike at the end of the winter term, AMPL launched an indefinite strike on Monday, coinciding with the start of the fall semester.
The strikes comes ten days after a Quebec Superior Court Judge affirmed McGill’s right to binding arbitration, a process where an independent arbitrator will hear from both parties and decide, point by point, what a collective agreement looks like.
AMPL representative Kirsten Anker told CKUT the union had offered to cancel the strike if McGill inked out a partial agreement going into arbitration, mostly on points both sides had agreed to. The union also demanded McGill drop a court challenge to the union’s certification. They say the university declined.
When reached by CKUT, McGill declined to comment on that offer, writing instead that “AMPL notified the University, late Sunday evening, that its members would be on strike…. The university will do everything in its power to minimize impacts on students and we reiterate our respect for our valued colleagues in the Faculty of Law.”
