We opened a Unit-wide vote on our Tentative Agreement on Friday, December 9th, and closed it on Sunday, December 11th. In total, 94.3% of members voted YES to form a new Collective Agreement (renewed for the term from September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2024)! You can access the Powerpoint presentation that outlines gains in this Collective Agreement here. You can…
Executive Summary This is the final Bargaining Bulletin! After a presentation of the gains made in bargaining this round, Unit 3 members who were present at the meeting on December 9 voted unanimously to send the tentative agreement to the full membership for a ratification vote. The ratification vote was opened immediately following the December 9 meeting and was…
Executive Summary Unit 3 has reached a tentative agreement! Shortly after 3am on Friday, December 9, your Bargaining Team (BT) and the Employer finalized the remaining items that needed resolution. Your BT believes that there have been significant gains made on your behalf, which will be presented to you at a membership meeting today (December…
Executive Summary Unit 3 is not on strike. Yet. Today, continue performing your work as usual. Your Bargaining Team (BT) extended the strike deadline past 12:01am on December 8. As such, Bargaining continued until 3:00am on December 8 and is ongoing today, with a revised deadline to achieve a Tentative Agreement of 2:00pm today. Your…
Executive Summary Members of your CUPE3902 Unit 3 Bargaining Team (BT) are hard at work on your behalf, pressing the Employer for meaningful gains right up to tomorrow’s strike deadline – 12:01am on December 8. On December 6, your BT tabled the remaining proposals re: monetary issues. At approximately 1am on December 7, the Employer…
Your bargaining team continues to sit at the negotiations table to push with you for a fair agreement. The University needs to recognize the important work that you do and improve your working conditions. Until they do, we continue to plan for a strike of all Unit 3 members. Picketing is part of the strike process,…
Executive Summary Bill 124 has been struck down by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice! CUPE 3902 Unit 3 has now been without a Collective Agreement for 456 days. Your Bargaining Team (BT) has now met with the Employer 21 times and continues to make progress on your behalf. Given the strike deadline of December…
Executive Summary CUPE 3902, Unit 3 will be in a legal strike position at 12:01am on Thursday December 8, 2022. On November 21, 2022, CUPE 3902 Unit 3 received confirmation that the “No Board Report” was approved by the Ministry of Labor See here for our important press release. Sign up to attend a workshop…
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…