The Manitoba government has been ordered to pay $19.3 million to members of the University of Manitoba faculty after a judge ruled the province violated the Charter rights of the faculty during negotiations, which led to a strike in 2016.
As the University of Manitoba Faculty Association’s (UMFA) current strike entered its fourth week, lawyers for the union which represent academic staff told a Manitoba judge UMFA members should be awarded $28 million in damages due to the circumstances that preceded the 2016 strike.