Teachers vote in favour of strike action

Life at Concordia University may be getting a little more difficult in the near future.

According to a report by The Link, full-time teachers at the university voted 74 percent in favour of strike action.

About 1000 professors who are being represented by the Concordia University Faculty Association took part in the vote.

The Profs now have the green light to go on strike, provided they give two days’ notice to their employer. With the ability to do so, the union has not clearly stated if that is their intention, however, it is a tactic to restart stalled negotiations.

The university and the CUFA have been in negotiations with the university for fifteen months now. Other unions are negotiating new collective bargaining agreements as well.

Meetings with a conciliator will go ahead as planned for the rest of the month.

Flickr Photo by: Viola Ng