Striking Nipissing professors have issued a formal invitation to the Nipissing Board of Governors and administration to return to bargaining.
In a news release, Susan Srigley, President of NUFA says that the Union has officially replied to this suggestion with a meaningful offer to negotiate. “We are ready to move from our last position. We have some creative and innovative ways to resolve our differences, as long as we are at the table and talking,” she says.
The Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) issued an open letter today asking for the resumption.
The unions says on Friday, the University posted on their website that their bargaining team is ready to resume talks when NUFA makes a “new and meaningful offer” in an “official communication.”
In the open letter, the NUFA executive says it wants negotiations need to happen at the table -- not in public.
“Public bargaining is damaging to both sides in any dispute. It just forces both sides to dig in. The Administration began public bargaining when they posted their final offer on the University website. Now we are calling for both sides to get back to bargaining as normal,” argues Srigley. “We are most concerned about the effects of this strike on our students and our Members want to get back into the classroom. We hope the University Administration shares our concerns and responds to this call to get back to the table and talk, if only for the sake of our students,” Srigley says.
See the University's position here.
