FREDERICTON – The New Brunswick government is directing both the administration and striking academics at Mount Allison University to resume collective bargaining with the help of a special mediator.
Larry Steinberg will meet with the two sides Wednesday and Thursday in an effort to resolve a strike that began Jan. 27.
Jody Carr, the province’s post-secondary education minister, says he would like to see students finish their term with as little disruption as possible.
The Mount Allison Faculty Association, which represents 154 full-time and 56 part-time faculty and librarians, says pay, pensions and benefits are the centre of the dispute.
The school has said it presented contract proposals that are consistent with recent collective agreements at other universities.
It has called on the union to accept its offer to enter into binding arbitration, something the striking workers have already rejected.
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