On August 26, the first day of the academic year, members of the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL) resumed their strike after walking the picket lines for almost nine weeks in the spring.

AMPL says the McGill administration has been refusing to engage in good-faith negotiations. Members unanimously voted to resume the strike after McGill’s negotiating team refused to show up for scheduled talks on August 19 and 21.

“This is a fight for recognition of unions in Canadian post-secondary education institutions,” said Evan Fox-Decent, AMPL President. “McGill is trying to kill unions. We won’t let them.”

AMPL intends to maintain the strike until McGill agrees to drop its attempts at decertification, resume bargaining on outstanding non-monetary issues, and put all previously agreed items in a collective agreement.

Two other faculty groups, the Association of McGill Professors of Education and the Association of McGill Professors of the Faculty of Arts, are also seeking to certify as trade unions.