On Friday, October 30, the CUPE 3903 Bargaining Team (BT) representing Unit 1 (Teaching Assistants, Marker/Graders, Lab Assistants, Tutors), Unit 2 (Contract Faculty), and Unit 3 (Graduate and Research Assistants) met with the Employer for the first time to discuss bargaining content. The meeting took place online on Zoom between 2pm-5pm. Prior to this meeting with the employer, the BT held a meeting on Zoom between 10am-1pm.
At this first bargaining meeting, present for the employer were Dan Bradshaw, (Assistant Vice-President, Faculty Relations), Diane Pestrin (Senior Advisor, Faculty Relations), Gerald Audette (Professor, Chemistry Department), Lyndon Martin (Vice-Provost Academic, Professor, Faculty of Education), Ran Lewin (Assistant Vice-President, Budgets and Asset Management), Leanne De Filippis (Senior Counsel, Labour & Employment), Kate McPherson (Associate Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) and Patrick Banville (Executive Officer, Faculty of Graduate Studies). The Employer’s lead negotiator is Dan Bradshaw.