YORK
ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO STONEWALL CUPE 3903
The CUPE 3903 bargaining team met with
the employer today (Sunday,
November 12th),
continuing our attempt to come to a fair and reasonable
Collective
Agreement which does not include rollbacks.
In the past few
days, the union
has put forward proposals which have reduced a number of
our key demands,
including lowering our wage demands for Graduate
Assistants,
dropping our proposal to raise the value of summer funding for
Teaching
Assistants, and moderating the numbers of positions under our job
security
proposals for Contract Faculty. All of
these represent
significant moves
on the part of the union, and they follow on the heels
of a number of
other reductions in our demands which were made in the
period leading up
to the beginning of the strike.
The response of the employer has been
a loud, consistent, and
unequivocal
NO. The last time the York
administration made any move on
monetary issues
came a week before the beginning of the strike in the form
of a small
increase in their wage proposal and a reversal of their initial
attempt to do
away entirely with a key program to ensure job security for
long-serving
Contract Faculty. Their offer continues
to include
significant
rollbacks, a position which led to the strike, and since then
they have taken
an entirely hardline stance, refusing to make any changes
at all in their
monetary offers. In so doing, the
administration has
shown a blatant
disregard not only for CUPE 3903, but also for the entire
York
community. Their absolute intransigence
on every key issue has led
to this strike,
and is responsible for its continuation.
We call upon the
entire York
community to join us in telling the administration that enough
is enough: it is
time to start bargaining seriously and to start
addressing the
issues on the table in a fair and flexible
manner.
CUTBACKS AND
STONEWALLING ARE UNACCEPTABLE!
CUPE 3903
Bargaining Team