York U. Strike Update: January 23

Another update on the York University strike:

• The strike, in its 79th day, is now the third-longest in the history of Canadian higher education, according to the sidebar to this article.

• Students disrupted a meeting of the York faculty senate executive, demanding to know why the partial resumption of classes announced yesterday hadn’t been undertaken earlier or on a larger scale.

• The new labor negotiator deployed by the Ontario government spent yesterday meeting with the two sides separately. Face-to-face negotiations are slated to resume today.

• YorkNotHostage, a student group, will be holding rallies in support of back-to-work legislation next Monday and Wednesday.

January 24 Update: It looks like the strike may be over. The provincial legislature will be called into session on Sunday afternoon to consider back-to-work legislation, and the Ontario premier is hoping to have students and faculty back in the classroom at York by the end of this week.