As the
strike by university professors at U-N-B in Saint John, Fredericton and
Bathurst continues, the Provincial NDP is calling for students to be
legislatively protected both academically and financially from losing
out.
Pat
Joyce is Executive-Director of the New Brunswick Student Alliance and
tells Tide News, financially that would mean rebates on their tuition.
As for
what could be done for them if their semester is lost, Joyce says that
would be unprecedented but a semester could very go down the drain, he
has heard, if a strike lasted more than 4 weeks. He would hope the
provincial government would step in and help the students out if that
happened.