The organization representing Crown attorneys in Manitoba walked away from labour talks with the province on Friday, after it said government officials did not bring real resources to the table to address prosecutor burnout.

The Manitoba Association of Crown Attorneys (MACA) filed a grievance in April 2023 , calling on the province to address "dangerously heavy caseloads" by increasing pay and recruiting more prosecutors.

After two and a half years, that grievance was set to go to arbitration earlier this week.

Ben Wickstrom, MACA's vice president of prosecutions and spokesperson for the group, says they didn't return to mediation meetings on Friday morning.

"We weren't making real progress. Ultimately, we knew that continuing it wasn't going to get us anywhere that would be accept

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