I can't help but feel fighting law professors on unionization on legal grounds was a fight that was always going to end badly.
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Yeah my friend works there. McGill is a real piece of shit employer actually. More and more people are trying to unionize because of how cheap they are.
The wealthiest university in Montreal, even Québec and they can't be bothered to give their employees decent enough pay raises that go above 2%. And when unionized employees finally go on strike, they stretch and stretch the negotiations until summer comes and half the school shuts down due to summer vacations.
Wealthiest in Canada as far as I know... Pretty funny considering it's an Anglo university in a French province...
Going by endowments it's third, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_universities_by_endowment But they have like $6 billion in assets if I'm reading this balance sheet right UofT is "only" $5.8 billion
Pretty funny considering it's an Anglo university in a French province...
Not really if you look at the history of Montreal and Quebec in general before the quiet revolution. There's a reason why there's so much resentment towards the English from the French Quebecois nation. But that's a whole other story.
Oh I understand the historical context that lead to it, but there's a whole lot of political decisions (or lack of political decisions) since the quiet revolution that still allows it to be as wealthy as it is as a university that doesn't teach in the only official language in the province even though education is a provincial power.
The power of the 4th estate at work.