Faculty, technical staff and support staff bargaining units at NSCAD University have voted overwhelming for strike action in recent weeks in the face of employer concessionary demands.

Following a provincial report last fall that named NSCAD as one of six universities at risk because of financial problems, the Nova Scotia government this September asked former provincial deputy minister Howard Windsor to propose a future for NSCAD, which may include options from terminating programs to merging with another school. His report is due late November.

Friends of NSCAD University, an hoc group of faculty, staff and alumni, are petitioning against a merger.