On the first day of the academic year, members of the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL) resumed their strike, after having walked the picket lines for almost nine weeks this past spring.

The union unanimously decided 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.”

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.

CAUT encourages its members to support AMPL in its efforts to achieve a first collective agreement.