Staff and students at Mount Royal University recently held a rally to protest Government of Alberta interference with collective bargaining and salaries, reports Global News. “The government has initiated some mandates in terms of what types of wage increases we’re looking at,” said Mount Royal Staff Association (MRSA) President Michelle LoGullo, adding that the current wage increases being offered to the faculty association are “paltry or insulting.” MRSA also argued that postsecondary institutions should be exempted from AB’s Bill 18. They asserted that it gives the government the power to “jeopardiz[e] academic freedom and impos[e] provincial priorities in what should be a neutral, objective, research-driven environment.”
