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Great news: @UNBC faculty have a collective agreement after more than a decade. The turning point appears to have come with new interim president @GWPayne18, who has focused on improving relations between the board and @UNBCFA. My latest for @TheTyee. 1/6
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In 2019, I wrote about then-chief negotiator Barb Daigle’s comments about closing #northernBC’s only university. “Universities don’t typically die, but there’s always a first,” Daigle told colleagues at a 2018 conference. 2/6
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Faculty were in the midst of a second walk-out in five years. They returned to classrooms a week later, in time to save the semester. Instead they took their grievance to the Labour Relations Board, accusing the university of bargaining in bad faith. 3/6
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