Faculty strike: McGill University threatens to cancel semester for law students

MONTREAL — McGill University is threatening to cancel law school classes for the rest of the semester if it can’t reach an agreement today with a faculty union that has been on strike since August.

The university says it will drop its legal challenge of the faculty’s right to unionize — a key demand of the Association of McGill Professors of Law — if the union agrees to negotiate working conditions collectively with other employee associations at the school.

McGill’s administration sent an email to law school students this morning saying the union must agree today to end its strike or the university will cancel courses taught by union members as of Oct. 1.

The university says it’s not plausible that classes could begin two months into the semester and still finish on time.