The two sides had been negotiating since April with little progress
Faculty members at the University of Prince Edward Island are off the job after a strike deadline passed in an ongoing dispute with the university over a new collective agreement.
“We’d rather have a deal. We’d rather not be here. But to see people out, fighting for what they believe in, and fighting for this institution, I’m just incredibly proud of these people,” Mike Arfken, president of the UPEI Faculty Association, said from the picket line at the Charlottetown institution on Monday morning.
