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Executive Summary On November 10, 2022, CUPE 3902, Unit 3 filed a “No Board Report.” When accepted by the Ministry of Labor, this starts the 17-day countdown to your legal strike position. The Employer continues to signal an unwillingness to improve the advancement processes outlined in your Collective Agreement (CA) that expired 438 days ago. But…

Bill 28 was repealed because of our collective power. Let’s now turn to the fight for good jobs at U of T. CUPE 3261 (service workers at U of T) are demanding no contracting out and may soon be on strike—their deadline is November 21. Our Union’s Unit 3 (sessional lecturers, writing instructors, music professionals, and sessional instructional assistants) is deep…

Bargaining Bulletin #5 – Executive Summary An overwhelming 85% of the 666 members who voted in the strike vote, voted YES. This is more than three times the number that participated in prior strike votes.  This vote comes in the wake of a week-long strike vote, which opened on October 26 after Unit 3 members in…

Last Wednesday, you and your colleagues met, heard a bargaining update, and voted to open a strike vote. 100% of you voted to open the strike vote, and it is now ongoing, online. Cast your vote by 5pm on Wednesday, 2 November 2022. How to Vote Voting will be conducted electronically using SimplyVoting.  A ballot with…

Executive Summary CUPE 3902 Unit 3 has been without a renewal Collective Agreement (CA) for 412 days. At the bargaining table between your Bargaining Team (BT) and the Employer, there has been continued progress. For example, there have been productive conversations with the Employer about ways to recognize service and professional experience that you bring…

Executive Summary At the bargaining table between your Bargaining Team (BT) and the Employer, there has been moderate progress. The two sides have mutually agreed to sign off on several articles in the Collective Agreement (CA). The BT has not yet tabled proposals for some of the priorities identified in the Unit 3 Bargaining Survey,…

Executive Summary The CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement expired on August 31, 2021 Your Bargaining Team (BT) has met with the Employer ten times Your BT has pushed for more dates to speed up the process, but the Employer claims to lack availability Despite the slow pace, moderate progress has been made at the…

Executive Summary CUPE 3902 Unit 3 had record participation in the survey of your bargaining priorities, equivalent to double the participation of prior rounds of negotiation. When those priorities were put to members, the vote was 100% in favour of adoption. This is incredibly encouraging, and there is every reason to believe the engagement and…