From an article published on 5 Feb. 2026 in The Rover:
In 2022, McGill’s law professors voted to unionize. The university spent $96,200 on outside legal fees, more than tripling the previous year’s budget. After the law professors organized, professors in the faculty of education and arts followed suit. By 2024, when the arts profs voted to unionize, McGill was paying nearly half a million dollars in legal fees each year, according to internal documents leaked to The Rover.
https://therover.ca/mcgill-spent-over-1-million-fighting-unionization/
Over the past 10 years, funding dedicated to executive and management salaries at McGill increased by 118 per cent, according to a report by the Association of McGill Professors of Science. During that same period, academic payroll grew by just 6 per cent. Median pay among non-[sic]academic staff, meanwhile, has declined since 2016, according to a report by the McGill Association of University Teachers.
https://therover.ca/mcgill-spent-over-1-million-fighting-unionization/