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…
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…
The strike mandate vote results are in! On March 5, 2025, you and your coworkers attended a Units Membership Meeting to hear the latest bargaining updates from your bargaining teams, and then you unanimously authorized the opening of the strike mandate vote. Between March 5-7, 2025, you voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike mandate. This…
Between March 5-7, 2025, you and your coworkers voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike mandate. This means you’ve granted your local’s Executive Committee the ability to call for a strike in the event that your employer refuses to reach a fair deal at the bargaining table. Your message to your employer is clear: Contract Academic…
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…