College merger musings old hat

In her March 29 column, Gail Lethbridge is right to upbraid Frank McKenna for his recent attacks on faculty unions in the Maritimes. McKenna’s main problem is that he doesn’t get his facts right.
Faculty in the Maritimes are actually paid significantly less than their colleagues elsewhere in Canada. Salary increases in the region have been running at around two per cent a year for the past several years. More...