Join our VP Unit 2, Vanessa Lehan-Streisel, and the Career Advisor, Kym Bird, for an information session on the job security provisions in our contract and how to apply for them.
This information session will take place on October 20, 2020 from 4:30–5:30pm.
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89906273681?pwd=dUsvS0YzS3JpMmwrUlUzNWticXF0UT09
The Trans Feminist Action Committee and Trans Caucus seeks two (2) self-identified trans* Poll Clerks and three (3) self-identified trans* members for the Trans Fund Committee.
The Trans Fund is comprised of 3 people whose responsibilities include advertising and promoting the Fund, receiving and reviewing applications, adjudicating applications, determining disbursements and other duties. All of the individuals who are elected to the Trans Fund must be Trans* identified.
Poll Clerks are paid $20/hr. The election will take place over Zoom.
We are hosting a Bargaining Special General Membership Meeting via Zoom! At this meeting, the bargaining team will be presenting updates. We all also continue discussing and voting on bargaining parameters as well as process. All members are encouraged to attend.
Keep reading for the tentative agenda, accessibility information and more.
The CUPE 3903 Childcare Fund exists to help you with any costs you might incur in relation to your children. Please apply! We divide the fund evenly among all those who apply. You must apply each fall in order to be included in the fall, winter, and summer disbursements of the fund – so even if you applied last year you need to re-apply again now.
If you are eligible (you have a child under 13 or under 18 with additional needs), then please apply for the CUPE 3903 Childcare Fund! The fund is not specific to daycare – it is to help you with the various costs associated with children. We have extended the deadline until October 10, 2020. You can apply by filling out the online form found here.
If you have questions about the fund please email the Childcare Fund Committee.
The election of the new Elections Officers for 2020–2021 took place at the September 29th GMM. The results are as follows:
Thomas Frattaroli: 12
Kathryn Galang: 4
Kelsey Ioannoni: 19 – elected
Huda Masood: 20 – elected
Abstentions: 6
Total ballots cast: 36
Thank you to all candidates who put their names forward.
The flow chart above will help members understand the procedures to get medical accommodation for work at York. It was vetted by our former 3903 Equity Officer, the Employee Well Being Office (EWB), and Faculty Relations.
Individual contract faculty employees will now be able to access their own work histories and seniority counts online. In order to access your work history and seniority counter you will need to obtain an EMPLOYEE Passport York account, if you have not already done so.
Information to create or reset a passport York account click here. This CUPE3903 service data is housed as part of your employee information, accessible through York University’s HR Self-Serve site.
Should you require technical assistance, please contact askit@yorku.ca;
For issues within Employee Self Service, contact hrhelp@yorku.ca;
For questions regarding the work history or seniority counts data, please contact Rob Lawson.
Unit 4 in CUPE 3903 needs YOUR support!
Despite approving 13 part-time library positions for the Fall Semester, York University has only posted four positions—a reduction of 70 per cent!
Library services are a vital component of academic life, made all the more important by the pandemic, which makes virtual support of learning and research critically necessary!
As bargaining begins, the CUPE 3903 executive committee sent the following letter to York University President, Rhonda Lenton. We communicated our expectations regarding addressing systemic racism in bargaining. Racism must be addressed at all levels, and the renewal of collective agreements is an opportunity to build concrete equity into the language of our contracts. So far, the university administration has left our members out of all of their plans to address systemic racism.
With a new school year comes new challenges, especially with the covid situation. Many of us are struggling with new classes, jobs suddenly gone, getting Yorked, learning how to teach online without any training, and all the unpaid labour we’re doing to stay alive and keep our households safe.
TFAC stands for Trans Feminist Action Caucus. We have a long history of activism to try and make changes in the union to address traditional and oppositional sexism, cissexism, transmisogyny, ableism, racism, and other forms of oppression that we’ve had to deal with.
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