FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From:
3903 Chair Joe Kispal-Kovacs at (416) 877-2103
Media Representative Michelle Lowry at(416) 877-2109
Sent:
23 October, 2000
Posted:
03 November
The
Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3903 at York University may
be
on strike, Thursday, October 26, 2000.
CUPE
3903 will be shutting down both York University campuses. We will
be
picketing
all 7 of the entrances to York at the Keele Campus, and both of
the
entrances at Glendon.
If
you would like to send a letter of support for 3903 please send
it
to the following addresses:
Lorna
Marsden, President
S949
Ross
4700
Keele Street
Toronto,
Ontario M3J 1P3
Fax
: 736-5641
Phone:
736-5200
email:
presidnt@yorku.ca
BOG
Chair Marshall Cohen
Office
of the University Secretariat
4700
Keele Street
Toronto,
Ontario M3J 1P3
Fax:
736-5796
Phone:
736-5012
Who
are we?
CUPE
3903 is made up of three bargaining units:
Unit
1 - Teaching Assistants are full-time graduate
students
at York. Their duties include teaching
undergraduates
in tutorials and working as tutors.
Approx.
1170 members.
Unit
2 - Contract Faculty are non-tenured professors
at
York. Their duties include directing courses,
teaching
lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Approx.
700 members.
Unit
3 - Graduate Assistants are full-time graduate
students
at York. Their duties include conducting
research
for faculty, assisting faculty with course
preparations,
and working in important research
centres
on campus. Approx. 380 members.
Our
members do over 40% of the teaching at York University. Our work
is
vital
for the effective functioning of the University.
Bargaining
at York
Our
Collective Agreement expired on August 31, 2000. All summer long
CUPE
has
wanted to bargain with the employer. However, the employer failed
to
meet
with us through most of this summer. After asking for meetings with
the
administration and getting no action, CUPE 3903 held a demonstration
in
the office of York President Lorna Marsden. As a result, the
administration
finally began meeting with us again in late September.
however,
their offer to date includes concessions for our members. We are
however,
willing to keep bargaining for a fair and respectful contract.
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