A preface to Day 18’s Dispatch from the Line: Strikes are a stressful and chaotic experience for everyone, but our members have managed to find moments of joy and laughter amidst it all. One unexpected source of glee has been … oranges. Or rather, satsumas, as we’ve learned they are called. Sourced from Akhroma Inc., a local grocery store next door to our strike office at 92 Capital Drive, they are absolutely delicious and we

Such a stir on the picket lines today. Richard Lemm (English) and Simon Lloyd (Robertson Library) showed up in costume and spouted nonsense at the pickets, like “UPEI has the best working conditions since universities were founded in Bologna and Timbuctu. In fact, since Plato’s Academy in Athens.” They also said UPEI’s infrastructure was “state of the art [and in] perfect repair” and the washrooms were so clean that any new doctors use the counters

The Faculty strike at UPEI continued into day 16 on Tuesday, with no word from the Board of Governors on when they might return to the table for negotiations. Following the Board’s failure to attend a meeting on Monday morning, the UPEI Faculty Association sent the UPEI Negotiations Team another invitation to meet on Tuesday morning without preconditions. UPEI did not respond to the invitation, and did not attend the meeting. As of Tuesday, UPEI’s

Negotiations Update Over the last 4 days we’ve heard from a number of FA members, UPEI students, and members of the Island community who have been taken aback by the UPEI Board of Governors’ recent messaging. Overall it seems that people are coming to realize that while the Board professes to want to resolve this labour disruption, their actions and communications have done nothing to move us in that direction. There is much to be