McMaster, CUPE reach tentative deal to end teaching and research assistant strike
Saturday deal with CUPE 3906 still subject to ratification votes.
Spectator Reporter
Sat., Dec. 10, 2022
McMaster University has reached a tentative collective agreement with the union representing its teaching and research assistants, bringing an end to a three-week labour dispute that some students said caused undue stress during exam season.
The west Hamilton institution announced the deal with CUPE 3906 in a release Saturday morning, saying it is still subject to ratification votes by the union and its board of governors this week.
“Reaching a tentative agreement with our CUPE members is welcome news for everyone involved,” Susan Tighe, McMaster’s provost and vice-president of academics, said in the release. “To our TAs and RAs, you are valued members of our campus community. It is wonderful that we will now be able to work together on successfully completing the fall term and preparing for the start of the winter term in January.”
McMaster said the tentative agreement puts an immediate end to the union’s striking and picketing activities, which began Nov. 21 after talks broke down between the two sides.
Meanwhile, in a Twitter statement Sunday, the union said striking will continue if the deal is rejected by its members.
“Through the ratification process on Monday and Tuesday, our members will determine if they return to work on Wednesday under the new tentative agreement,” CUPE 3906 said.
The union was asking for increased wages in line with the cost of living, guaranteed work, and to close the pay gap between graduate and undergraduate assistants, according to its website.
The details of the deal are not yet clear.
Ontario government reaches tentative deal with 2nd union for education workers
After long and tense negotiations, CUPE education workers have voted in favour of ratifying an agreement with the Ford government. But as Tina Yazdani reports, critics say the fight for public education is far from over.
By The Canadian Press
Posted Dec 11, 2022,
TORONTO — The Ontario government has reached a tentative deal with school staff represented by the Ontario Council of Educational Workers.
OCEW issued a statement saying the deal was reached after multiple days of negotiations between the bargaining council, the Council of Trustees’ Association and the province.
It says the tentative deal will go to members for ratification across the province in the coming weeks.
Sat., Dec. 10, 2022
McMaster University has reached a tentative collective agreement with the union representing its teaching and research assistants, bringing an end to a three-week labour dispute that some students said caused undue stress during exam season.
The west Hamilton institution announced the deal with CUPE 3906 in a release Saturday morning, saying it is still subject to ratification votes by the union and its board of governors this week.
“Reaching a tentative agreement with our CUPE members is welcome news for everyone involved,” Susan Tighe, McMaster’s provost and vice-president of academics, said in the release. “To our TAs and RAs, you are valued members of our campus community. It is wonderful that we will now be able to work together on successfully completing the fall term and preparing for the start of the winter term in January.”
McMaster said the tentative agreement puts an immediate end to the union’s striking and picketing activities, which began Nov. 21 after talks broke down between the two sides.
Meanwhile, in a Twitter statement Sunday, the union said striking will continue if the deal is rejected by its members.
“Through the ratification process on Monday and Tuesday, our members will determine if they return to work on Wednesday under the new tentative agreement,” CUPE 3906 said.
The union was asking for increased wages in line with the cost of living, guaranteed work, and to close the pay gap between graduate and undergraduate assistants, according to its website.
The details of the deal are not yet clear.
Ontario government reaches tentative deal with 2nd union for education workers
After long and tense negotiations, CUPE education workers have voted in favour of ratifying an agreement with the Ford government. But as Tina Yazdani reports, critics say the fight for public education is far from over.
By The Canadian Press
Posted Dec 11, 2022,
TORONTO — The Ontario government has reached a tentative deal with school staff represented by the Ontario Council of Educational Workers.
OCEW issued a statement saying the deal was reached after multiple days of negotiations between the bargaining council, the Council of Trustees’ Association and the province.
It says the tentative deal will go to members for ratification across the province in the coming weeks.
The OCEW is made up of six unions representing thousands of workers at public and catholic school boards across the province, including educational resource facilitators and maintenance and construction workers.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce issued a release saying the deal shows the Progressive Conservative government can deliver agreements with education unions. Neither Lecce nor OCEW disclosed terms of the new contract.
The deal comes weeks after the province locked horns with the 55,000 educational workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who walked off the job for two days last month after the government passed a law imposing a contract on them, banning their right to strike and preemptively invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to guard against constitutional challenges. That law was eventually repealed and the two sides have since ratified a new contract.
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