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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.
Lawyers for the Manitoba government acknowledged in the Court of Queen’s Bench on Tuesday it was unconstitutional for the provincial government in 2016 to impose a secret bargaining mandate when the University of Manitoba and the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) were in the middle of contract talks.
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