McGill University threatened Monday to cancel law classes for the remainder of the session if it did not manage to reach an agreement that day with a professors’ union on strike since August.
The Montreal university says it will drop its legal challenge to these professors’ right to unionize — a key demand from the McGill Association of Law Professors — if the union agrees to negotiate its members’ working conditions at the same time than other McGill unions.
The McGill administration sent an email to law school students Monday morning, telling them that the union must agree to end its strike that day, otherwise the university would cancel classes taught by these students on Tuesday. teachers for the fall session.
The university says it is implausible that classes could start two months after the start of the session and still finish on time, before the holidays.
The McGill Law Students’ Association says the offer is “nothing more than window dressing” and says the university and union need to be more flexible.
The Quebec Administrative Labor Tribunal certified the McGill Association of Law Professors in November 2022, but the union has not yet concluded its first collective agreement.
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