By Cheryl Jahn

Potential Pickets At UNBC

Oct 18, 2018 | 4:27 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – UNBC is on edge these days, as the potential of pickets looms. The UNITE HERE!, Local 40, issued 72-hour strike notice earlier this month but has yet to act.

The Faculty Association says, should there be pickets, the location of those pickets could impact the classroom.

“Hypothetically, if there were to be pickets at the university entrance, that basically shuts the whole campus down,” says Paul Sanborn with UNBC’s Faculty Association. “That would be one scenario. However, it’s possible you could have picketed in selected locations, which don’t prevent access to classrooms and offices.

The Faculty Association says it fully supports the staff in Food Services.

“Our job here is to do our teaching, but we also want to make sure that we demonstrate the support that we feel for the Local 40 members who’ve got a just cause here. Our members are sympathetic to the situation that they’re in and we would like the university to demonstrate the leadership that it should be demonstrating.”

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He recently wrote a letter to Dr. Daniel Weeks, UNBC’s President “to express disappointment at the University’s lack of leadership in the current labour dispute between Local 40 of UNITE HERE! and Chartwells.”

“By failing to acknowledge and exercise its ability to play a positive role, the University risks unnecessarily prolonging this dispute and magnifying its potential impact on the UNBC community.”

The Faculty Association suggests, as the Food Service contract expires, the University should exercise the discretion to write successor right’s for the university’s next food service Request for Proposals.

by Cheryl Jahn

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Potential Pickets At UNBC

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