The current state of COVID-19
The University of Manitoba Faculty Association hosted a webinar on Feb. 28 to discuss the current and future COVID-19 situation and how to make campus safer. The webinar included presentations from two...
View ArticleMasks and clean air can help protect our community
This past month marked three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Most public health restrictions have ended, and most governments are acting like the virus is...
View ArticleUMFA raises concerns over COVID-19 practices
The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) continues to be concerned with the university’s health and safety practices surrounding SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The association...
View ArticleCourt upholds ruling, Manitoba must pay UMFA $19.4M
Manitoba’s Court of Appeal has rejected the provincial government’s appeal of the ruling that the province must pay the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) $19.4 million in damages...
View ArticleManitoba government will not appeal UMFA case further
The provincial government has chosen not to pursue further action following a decision from the Manitoba Court of Appeal to uphold a previous ruling ordering the province to pay $19.4 million to the...
View ArticleLetter to U of M president Michael Benarroch from UMFA
Dear president Benarroch, Despite much of the normalcy that has resumed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 is not a trivial ailment, even for healthy people who are up to date with their...
View ArticleLetter from president Benarroch to UMFA
Dear Orvie, Thank you for your correspondence. As we head into the fall term, I am happy to provide the following information in response to your questions and recommendations. The health and safety...
View ArticleUMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians, but they also haven’t done anything more...
View ArticleLook to other university strikes when U of M is quiet
Having lived through UMFA’S 2016 and 2021 strikes as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, I like to keep my ear to the ground about labour disputes in other post-secondary institutions across...
View ArticleStudents should support faculty strikes
Strikes are meant to be disruptive. There is no way around it, because protesting for rights while meeting the needs of the administration workers are agitating against is simply not feasible or...
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