We are hosting a General Membership Meeting via Zoom on June 11th at 12:00pm to 1:30pm! All members are encouraged to attend.
Please register in advance for this meeting here.
In order to register, you will need to provide your employee number, which will be kept confidential. Your employee number is on your monthly pay stub. If you don’t know your employee number, please click here for instructions.
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At the GMM on May 31st, several important discussions were had and motions passed. Please continue reading for highlights of the meeting. Thank you to everyone who came out.
The purpose of the TFAC Financial Assistance Fund is to provide TFAC members with up to $200 per budgetary year in financial assistance. This is a pilot project to be run during the COVID pandemic, in order to support members. This fund will be adjudicated twice: June 30th 2021 and September 31st 2021. Following the completion of the pilot project, the TFAC membership can discuss the potential continuation of the fund.
Employer Refuses to Engage in Meaningful Discussion of Job Security in Seventh Weekend of Mediated Bargaining with Chris Albertyn
On May 29th and 30th, the Bargaining Team met with mediator Chris Albertyn. We are disappointed to see that more than two months into this process, the Employer still refuses to commit to meaningful improvement of job security for our members. The Employer’s lack of response on equity runs counter to the priorities identified by the membership and York’s own stated commitments. Click here to see the Union’s latest proposal package.
a) Transitional Continuing Appointments (TCA)
In our latest pass, the Union made significant movement:
The following statement was endorsed by the CUPE 3903 membership at the GMM on May 31, 2021.
The members of CUPE 3903 stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their liberation struggle against settler colonialism, apartheid rule, and the ongoing expulsion and ethnic cleansing across the country, including in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the West Bank and besieged Gaza.
We condemn the York University President’s recent portrayal of these recent atrocities as a two-sided ‘conflict’ – the very same President who allowed and defended an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recruitment event to take place on campus in 2019. Time and again, reports from various international human rights organizations, including the United Nations (UN), have concluded that Israel is an apartheid regime. In January 2021, B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, released a report that illustrates the various ways in which the State of Israel’s racist practices against Palestinians constitute apartheid. This analysis was further corroborated by Human Rights Watch.
The following motion was passed at the CUPE 3903 GMM on May 31, 2021:
Whereas, there is an ongoing ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, and other neighborhoods across occupied Palestine.
Whereas, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently released a report concluding that Israel is an apartheid state and is guilty of crimes against humanity.
And, whereas, York University invests in arms manufacturers, namely: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Amphenol, and Textron Inc.
Whereas, Amphenol is the main supplier of military and aerospace products to the Israeli army.
On Friday, May 28th, the CUPE 3903 Bargaining Team met with the conciliators as part of the process of conciliated bargaining. There was minimal meaningful movement on the part of the Employer.
Employer: CUPE 3903
Position: Phone bank canvasser
Website: https://3903.cupe.ca/
Position Type: Casual hire from June 16, 2021- June 30, 2021. Hire must be a current or political member of 3903.
Equity Commitment
CUPE 3903 is strongly committed to employment equity within our workplace, work environment, and broader community. We particularly encourage applications from persons with one or more disabilities, LGBTQ persons, persons from racialized groups, Indigenous persons and women.
We are hosting a General Membership Meeting via Zoom on May 31st at 1:00pm to 4:00pm! All members are encouraged to attend.
Please register in advance for this meeting here.
In order to register, you will need to provide your employee number, which will be kept confidential. Your employee number is on your monthly pay stub. If you don’t know your employee number, please click here for instructions.
York University is mistreating nurses during a global pandemic! Tell York to address the problems in the School of Nursing by bargaining effective solutions.
The School of Nursing at York University relies heavily on the work of precariously-employed Clinical Course Directors (CCDs) to train the next generation of nurses. As workers in the School of Nursing at York, CCDs are facing a number of long-standing labour issues: they have to repeatedly meet arbitrary demands to prove qualifications despite a rigorous system of checks already in place by their College; they are expected to be available 12 hours a day, 7 days a week; and they are facing increasing class sizes.
Continue reading and sign the petition here.