Eighty-three per cent of Dalhousie’s faculty association voted in favour of a strike Thursday.
Over 800 professors and support staff at Dalhousie will walk off the job if a deal isn’t reached by Monday.
The university’s pension plan is the chief source of disagreement in this round of bargaining. University officials want to make Dalhousie faculty partly responsible for budget shortfalls.
The university’s pension fund faces a shortfall estimated at $40–50 million per year.
Hoping to avert the strike, Nova Scotia’s cabinet is temporarily waiving pension plan solvency regulations for the province’s universities, saving administrators from cutting funding or pensions.
—Aberdeen Berry
