McGill Hiring Scabs

Posted on | September 24, 2011 | No Comments

The Gazette reports that the Quebec Ministry of Labour has concluded that McGill University is hiring scabs to replace striking MUNACA workers:

MONTREAL – An investigation commissioned by the Quebec Ministry of Labour has concluded that McGill University is employing illegal scabs to replace some of its striking non-academic employees.

The ministry had received 57 complaints from the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA), which represents more than 1,600 workers who have been on strike since Sept. 1.

An investigator was dispatched Sept. 8, and after interviews at both the downtown and Macdonald campuses, found that 15 of 110 workers replacing striking employees were not managers or otherwise eligible to replace them, and hence were doing so illegally.

(full article here)

TRAC deplores this illegal act.  We encourage all TRAC members to tell the McGill administration that the law applies equally to all, and to immediately cease using illegal labour:

Heather Monroe-Blum
Principal and Vice-Chancellor
heather.munroe.blum@mcgill.ca
(514) 398-4180

Lynne B. Gervais
Associate Vice-Principal, Human Resources
lynne.gervais@mcgill.ca
(514) 398-3228

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