CUPE 3903 members pose in front of Vari Hall, just before the bargaining meeting with the Employer on September 26, 2014.
About 30 CUPE 3903 members mobilized for the latest bargaining meeting with the Employer, including rank-and-file members, members of the Bargaining Team, members of the Executive Committee, and staff. In fact, the turnout by CUPE 3903 members was so large that the meeting had to be moved to a bigger room.
The meeting took place took place on Friday, September 26 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in 280N York Lanes. Four people were present for the Employer’s bargaining team.
CUPE 3903 members met at the local office beforehand to make hand-made signs and placards, expressing their demands to the Employer during this round of bargaining. Members, representing all three units, also made signs to show which departments were present in the meeting.
A sampling of the handmade signs and placards that members brought to the bargaining meeting
The mobilization of members for bargaining meetings with the Employer is organized by the Bargaining Mobilization Committee. The next open bargaining pre-meeting is Tuesday, September 30 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the CUPE 3903 office, 143 Atkinson Building, to be followed by a bargaining meeting with the employer from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in S802 Ross Building.
Stay tuned for a more detailed report about the bargaining meeting from Bargaining Team members. Past bargaining updates are available here.
If you would like to be part of the next mobilization of support for upcoming bargaining meetings with the Employer, please email CUPE3903csu1@gmail.com.
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Getting ready to march to the bargaining meeting
Members carried signs for their departments and units.
Posing for pictures in the Student Centre
Marching through York Lanes to the bargaining meeting