The ‘counter’ offer of 22 full time positions is a joke.

Probably about 22 full time Teachers Faculty are retiring anyway due to the mandatory retirement that York has in place.

Considering there are 1700 Contract faculty on the line who are asking to have to re-apply for their jobs every 5 years instead of every year, the counter offer is a slap in the face. Even Starbucks empoyees don’t have to re-apply for thier jobs every year.

While York’s tuition increases every year, enrollment increases, so does the workload for staff, and so does the revenue for the administration.

If the administration can’t balance the books properly, maybe they should not have their jobs.

I smell mismanagement and scandal from these ‘team of experts’ who pretend to care about the students by offering us $100 bucks for our lost year. What a spit in the face. It is obviously who is using who. The admin is using the students to get mad at the union.
Well the union didn’t take our tuition, the admin did.

If we don’t get our year back, don’t think that we won’t want it back.

The admin has walked away from the bargaining table several times.

The strike has been on for 10 weeks and the admin has met with the union 5-7 days max. which is completely unnacceptable.

Boy, I wish that I got paid $1,500 hundred dollars a day to go to the gym.

Anyone who really knows the truth, knows how this counter offer is a joke, how CUPE did a GM vote the day before the forced ratification vote, and how media articles are meant to do one thing, destroy union loyalty from the mass of Canadians through misinformation.

These people have obviously forgotton all of the gains of the Labour movement and should be ashamed of themselves for enjoying these luxuries in Canada that were hard fought by the wonderful not dissimilar to the wonderful people in 3903.

All you union bashers should just turn in all of your benefits, CPP, Medicare, maternity leave, health and safety legislation now, because you don’t deserve them!!!!!!!!!

The issue from CUPE’s perspective is job security for part-time and contract faculty. Creating full-time positions is no answer to that. But on a bigger picture level, the issue arises because of increasing reliance on casual labour. To move away from that reliance is, in a sense, some answer to the issue.

Anyway, I see the point of York’s claim on this one, but I’m almost certain that CUPE won’t nor should they. Creating jobs for people who aren’t members of CUPE doesn’t answer what CUPE is seeking for its members.