This the the "what do you need to get by in three weeks" post-strike thread I promised.
Also, Prof. Trifanova is setting the due date of the paper to March 5th. It will be turned in at the Tutorial.
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Eli
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Question 1. What are the "unresolved" issues that regardless of what is decided in binding arbitration, pose a threat for the next school year?
Question 2. Why in the matter of a day did CUPE decide to abandon the decision to challenge the legislation?
Question 3. The media at times appeared to have skewed and incorrect information regarding the progress/negotiations... however one thing that was brought out was that things that were removed from the list of demands were added back. Is this correct?
Questions 4. How come not the entire union voted on the rat vote?
I will address these questions to the best of my ability, but I'm not 100% sure of their accuracy.
1: The contract will be a 3 year contract, so their will not be negotiations next year. Therefore I do not believe a strike is possible.
2: CUPE may have abandoned a legal challenge based on their current financial situation or the feeling that simply going back to work was the best thing that could be done at the time for the membership.
3: The CUPE negotiating team, as I understand it, may have removed items which at a later date, CUPE members voted to reinstate as demands. Many controversies stemmed from how much power the negotiating team should have in deciding which demands to eliminate or ratify.
4: The entire Union was invited to vote on the forced ratification, but as I understand it, around 1,600 did. This was not because every Unit wasn't informed.
I would like to say that I supported CUPE during the strike and was quite surprised at the backlash upon returning to classes. I am a little bit bummed out that it ended the way it did, and that York basically put things off as long as possible so that the Gov't had to get involved. In my opinion, it's a poor way to do business with over 50% of the teaching staff.
I'm not upset at CUPE or any of my TA's, and feel like I am among a minority in that regard. It seems to me like people didn't read up on both sides of the story. It is possible that all of their information is coming from the York email spam, but I do understand that people are upset that we've had our year fucked around with. I think that we need to think about who we're mad at and why.
Great news in regards to the essay being pushed back. Makes things a little easier to organize, since I'm pretty bad at remembering things when they're not scheduled perfectly. Thanks for throwing all of this up, Eli.
This may sound silly, but can anyone enlighten me as to this 12% refund. I know this "credit" thing - I read up on it - but what if I don't want to drop any course, than does nothing happen?
What happened to the prospect of a 12% refund on tuition - has that not yet been passed? Or is this awkward "credit" the Uni's way of dealing with the service disruption.
I am fairly indifferent to the strike, it mattered very little to me; however, I do believe that a service, once paid, must offer itself in full. I think of it like a tanning salon, I paid for so many minutes.
I don't mean to sound simple, things do matter to me, but this year money has been TIGHT and I want 12% of my tuition.
I too feel for the T.A's because I look at it as if I were a T.A. Sadly, the state of things in Canada, especially the Arts, are increasingly frigid and misanthropic, like car insurance.
5 comments:
Question 1.
What are the "unresolved" issues that regardless of what is decided in binding arbitration, pose a threat for the next school year?
Question 2.
Why in the matter of a day did CUPE decide to abandon the decision to challenge the legislation?
Question 3.
The media at times appeared to have skewed and incorrect information regarding the progress/negotiations... however one thing that was brought out was that things that were removed from the list of demands were added back. Is this correct?
Questions 4.
How come not the entire union voted on the rat vote?
I will address these questions to the best of my ability, but I'm not 100% sure of their accuracy.
1: The contract will be a 3 year contract, so their will not be negotiations next year. Therefore I do not believe a strike is possible.
2: CUPE may have abandoned a legal challenge based on their current financial situation or the feeling that simply going back to work was the best thing that could be done at the time for the membership.
3: The CUPE negotiating team, as I understand it, may have removed items which at a later date, CUPE members voted to reinstate as demands. Many controversies stemmed from how much power the negotiating team should have in deciding which demands to eliminate or ratify.
4: The entire Union was invited to vote on the forced ratification, but as I understand it, around 1,600 did. This was not because every Unit wasn't informed.
Hope that helps.
Eli
I would like to say that I supported CUPE during the strike and was quite surprised at the backlash upon returning to classes. I am a little bit bummed out that it ended the way it did, and that York basically put things off as long as possible so that the Gov't had to get involved. In my opinion, it's a poor way to do business with over 50% of the teaching staff.
I'm not upset at CUPE or any of my TA's, and feel like I am among a minority in that regard. It seems to me like people didn't read up on both sides of the story. It is possible that all of their information is coming from the York email spam, but I do understand that people are upset that we've had our year fucked around with. I think that we need to think about who we're mad at and why.
In a non-CUPE-related comment:
Great news in regards to the essay being pushed back. Makes things a little easier to organize, since I'm pretty bad at remembering things when they're not scheduled perfectly. Thanks for throwing all of this up, Eli.
This may sound silly, but can anyone enlighten me as to this 12% refund. I know this "credit" thing - I read up on it - but what if I don't want to drop any course, than does nothing happen?
What happened to the prospect of a 12% refund on tuition - has that not yet been passed? Or is this awkward "credit" the Uni's way of dealing with the service disruption.
I am fairly indifferent to the strike, it mattered very little to me; however, I do believe that a service, once paid, must offer itself in full. I think of it like a tanning salon, I paid for so many minutes.
I don't mean to sound simple, things do matter to me, but this year money has been TIGHT and I want 12% of my tuition.
I too feel for the T.A's because I look at it as if I were a T.A. Sadly, the state of things in Canada, especially the Arts, are increasingly frigid and misanthropic, like car insurance.
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