Faculty members at the College of New Caledonia (CNC) staged a midday rally Wednesday at the Prince George campus to protest the slow progress of contract negotiations and what they call underfunding of post-secondary education by the provincial government.
"We don't have free and open collective bargaining, we have nothing but stalemate," CNC Faculty Association president Jan Mastromatteo said during a speech to slightly more than 50 onlookers.
CNC faculty have been without a contract for nearly a year and the province's bargaining agent has been mandated to negotiate a "net-zero" contract where any increase in pay or benefits is offset by an equivalent reduction in another area.
Sheldon Clare vice president of the CNC faculty association bargaining committee said a few words on the subject as well.
