February 2025 Bargaining Info Sessions

What is a strike mandate? The Strike Mandate Vote is a necessary step in any round of bargaining. The vote asks members of CUPE 3902 Units 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 to decide whether or not they grant the Union’s Executive Committee the right to call for strike to reach a fair contract with…

New round of bargaining, sample employer excuses You and your coworkers in Units 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are graduate assistants, writing instructors, sessional lecturers, undergraduate tutors, music professionals and more at the University of Toronto, St. Michael’s College, and Victoria College. Your labour is the reason that UofT is a prestigious and world-class…

Unit 2 and Unit 6 Bargaining Teams Make Significant Gains, Reach Tentative Agreements! IOn Friday, your Bargaining Teams for Units 2 and 6 signed Tentative Agreements. A Tentative Agreement means that your team and the Employer’s team have tentatively agreed to a contract. It is now up to you, as the members of Unit 2…

VOTE YES FOR A STRIKE MANDATE! Your bargaining teams filed for conciliation on February 6 to show U of T, St. Michael’s College, and Victoria College that your demands deserve to be taken seriously. A Conciliation Officer has now been assigned and will be meeting with the bargaining teams and employers to try to reach…

UofT Contract Academic Workers are Stronger Together  In the summer of 2024, you and your coworkers in CUPE 3902 began a coordinated bargaining campaign. For the first time in our union’s history, five of our bargaining units decided to come together to collectively improve working conditions. Sessional Lecturers, Writing Instructors, Graduate Assistants, Sessional Instructional Assistants,…

STRIKE DEADLINE SET FOR UNITS 2, 3, AND 7: TUESDAY APRIL 1st! Because your Employer hasn’t yet considered some of our key issues for Units 2, 3 and 7, your Bargaining Teams asked the Ministry of Labour to issue a No Board Report, therefore starting a countdown of 17-days to potential strike or lockout. The…