Contract Faculty, Graduate Assistants and Teaching Assistants provide the majority of teaching at York University. They deserve a fair deal!
York University refuses to address the affordability crisis caused by rising housing and food prices at the same time that wages on campus have stagnated. More and more, academic staff are living further from campus and being forced to work other jobs to make ends meet.
That has a very direct impact on the quality of education provided by the university to graduate and undergraduate students alike. Who can afford to work at York? While everything from rent to medicine skyrocketed in price, wages for academic workers were capped at 1%. Meanwhile, York University gave senior administrators an average increase of 20%[1].
Quality education is at stake, as much for undergraduate students whose educators’ working conditions are their learning conditions, as for graduate students, for whom education has become more and more out of reach as wages fall well below cost of living. The state of low wages for Contract Faculty, Graduate Assistants and Teaching Assistants at York University is an equity issue.
Click here tell the York University Senior Administration to support wages, job stability and protections that provide an accessible, high quality education to all! It only takes minute, there’s an email template ready for you – all you need to do is add your information and hit send!
[1] https://auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports/en23/AR_YorkU_en23.pdf
