UPEI, faculty union agree to mediation in effort to end ongoing faculty strike
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — UPEI administration and its school affiliation have agreed to work with a provincial mediator to attempt to finish an ongoing strike that has halted lessons on the college.
The college mentioned each events agreed to a suggestion from the provincial authorities to help one other spherical of mediation between the college and the school affiliation in hopes of reaching a brand new contract settlement.
The mediator, an neutral third occasion, will information negotiations between the 2 events.
The College appears ahead to the mediation course of and reaching an an settlement that can enable college students to return to class as quickly as potential. https://t.co/i19KXfWO2W
— College of PEI (@UPEI) April 5, 2023
Either side expressed curiosity in having Michelle Flaherty reappointed because the mediator. Flaherty labored with the 2 events earlier this 12 months and is accustomed to the objects in dispute.
UPEI’s scholar union has additionally reached out to the college expressing its help for the mediation course of.
“We look ahead to the mediation course of and an settlement that can enable college students to return to class as quickly as potential,” the college mentioned in an announcement.
