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Halifax, Nova Scotia—On Wednesday 13 April, professors and librarians from the record strike at Université Sainte-Anne, as well as  their vocal student supporters, will move their multi-week demonstration to Province House. They hope that the government will persuade the University’s administration to enter into the binding arbitration that the province’s Acting Chief Conciliation and Mediation […]

The Association of Professors and Librarians of Université Sainte-Anne (APPBUSA) deplores the communication strategy of the university administration, which approaches attempts at disinformation. Since the beginning of negotiations, the administration has refused to clearly present its positions to the university community and has made incomplete statements. For example, they maintained that they were ready to […]

APPBUSA has now received the list of contract clauses held back from arbitration by the administration. There are 44 clauses, relating to 11 different articles, addressing not only management rights (as the administration claimed in its March 31 press release) but in fact covering a wide range of critical issues: hiring and re-hiring, work overload, […]

Church Point, Nova Scotia—On Friday 1 April, professors and librarians from across Canada will join the daily picket line at the main campus of Université Sainte-Anne for the second time. The legal Sainte-Anne strike, which 93% of members of the Association des Professeurs, Professeures et Bibliothécaires de l’Université Sainte-Anne [APPBUSA] voted to launch, is now […]

Church Point, March 31st 2022 info_APPBUSA Following a meeting with Nova Scotia’s Acting Chief Conciliation and Mediation Officer, the Association of Professors and Librarians of Université Sainte-Anne (APPBUSA) has formally requested binding arbitration, in order to immediately end the current labour dispute. Despite progress made between March 16 and 29, it had become clear that […]

Church Point, Nova Scotia—The administration of Université Sainte-Anne has declined an invitation to enter binding arbitration and immediately return students and professors to class here in the fourth week of a strike. Following a meeting with Nova Scotia’s Acting Chief Conciliation and Mediation Officer, the Association of Professors and Librarians of Université Sainte-Anne (APPBUSA) formally […]

Church Point, March 26, 2022 Negotiations between the Université Sainte-Anne faculty union (APPBUSA) and the university administration resumed just over a week ago. The two sides have reached agreement on roughly half of the issues on the table, and they continue to work towards a settlement that will be fair to faculty and good for […]

Church Point, Nova Scotia—On Friday 25 March, professors and librarians from across Canada will join the daily picket line at the main campus of Université Sainte-Anne. The legal Sainte-Anne strike, which 93% of members of the Association des Professeurs, Professeures et Bibliothécaires de l’Université Sainte-Anne [APPBUSA] voted to launch, is now in its third week. […]