McGill University law professors will return to classrooms this week after their union suspended a strike that had lasted since the start of the fall semester.
The school’s administration and the Association of McGill Professors of Law say they will develop a system to negotiate collective agreements jointly with other faculty unions, and classes will resume by Oct. 3.
McGill has been pushing for faculty unions to work together to avoid what it calls a “Kafkaesque situation” that would require the administration to negotiate separately with a multitude of unions.
The union says if an agreement on collective bargaining is reached by Oct. 7, the university will drop its legal challenge of the law faculty’s right to unionize – the professors’ key demand since they elected not to return to classrooms in late August. The union says if it can’t agree with the university on a “federated system” for negotiating …