Author: Marianna Reis

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…

Unit 2, 4 & 6 Still Bargaining! Unit 3 and 7 may have new CAs, but sibling Units 2, 4, and 6 remain in bargaining with their respective employers. Whatever unit you are in, get involved in supporting the ongoing coordinated campaign by visiting www.WeAreUofT.com/take-action. While you are there, you can find out more about…

Unit 3 & 7 Ratification  The ratification vote results are in: Unit 3: 92% YES to adopting the tentative agreement as your new Collective Agreement Unit 7: 96% YES to adopting the tentative agreement as your new Collective Agreement The Unit 3 and Unit 7 Collective Agreements (CAs) come into effect on Monday April 14th,…

Coordination Continues: Stronger Together! Last week, Units 3 and 7 reached tentative agreements with the Employer on the eve of the April 1st strike deadline. Units 2, 4, and 6 remain at the bargaining table, and are building on the momentum of last week’s tentative agreements to continue pushing for significant gains at the table…

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 around the corner for Units 2, 3, and 7! We only have updates for Unit 7 for this issue, but remember that the strike deadline for Units 2, 3, and 7 is April 1! All in all, we have five units engaged together in coordinated bargaining, five units with one voice: No concessions,…

We, the undersigned members of the University of Toronto Employees’ Associations and Unions (UTEAU) coalition, which collectively represents over 100,000 students, staff, faculty, librarians, and workers across University of Toronto, are united in expressing our support for CUPE 3902 in their ongoing fight for fair pay, stronger job security, increases to benefits and protections, and…

We Won’t Back Down! As the April 1 strike deadline approaches, the Employer is panicking. They are giving us the same canned speeches at the table about how “strikes don’t work”, to dissuade you and your coworkers from taking action. We will not back down from fighting for fair working conditions! Your bargaining teams are…