Would you please help me understand how does, what is going on here?

Sure thing, Nate.

It is a, uh, it's a hell of a story and it's one, it's very rare for any union to go public to this level of detail with a member, particularly when you're talking about, uh, her child's medical condition, but the university was behaving in a way that was putting arbitrary, very short deadlines on us.

And we realized that going public was probably our only chance to keep a member employed at the university.

So the member here is Dr. Sabine Graf.

Now, I'll take a step back and explain Athabasca University because there's a bit of context that I think will help sort of build the story here.

And Athabasca University is based in the town of Athabasca, where I live, but it was founded as a correspondence open university and since has become an online university.

If you want, I