Áine Humble, a professor at Mount Saint Vincent University, holds a hooked rug she created called "Union Action on Bedford Highway" to commemorate the MSVUFA strike.
A previous version of this article contained an error in the wording of what was voted on at the 97th CAUT Council meeting. This version has been corrected.
On November 29, the Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association (MSVUFA) and the university administration finally signed a new collective agreement, 260 days after ratification by the faculty association’s members.
Delegates at the 97th CAUT Council meeting in Ottawa voted unanimously that the Mount Saint Vincent University administration acted unacceptably in delaying the signing of the collective agreement.
MSVUFA, which represents nearly 160 full-time faculty, professional librarians, and full-time lab instructors, secured the new contract after more than three weeks on strike.