I’d just like to know if my exam is on day 3 of the exam period or day 5 or day 12. That’s all I want. Why can’t they do that?

I am not supporting any party here. But a rejection will show the true color of both the parties.

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CUPE always accuses York of not negotiating… Yet CUPE refuses to COMPROMISE on anything! The foundation of negotiation, is each side has to give in a little… from what we can all see. CUPE isn’t willing to negotiate AT ALL. This is why we refer to this strike as hostage taking. STOP being unreasonable and vote Yes.

Felt I should point that out.

This is unrelated to the thread, but when I initially signed up, I clicked the “notify me of followup comments via email”–foolishly. Now I am being inundated with many emails. When I click the link in the email to manage my subscriptions, I get the error message “You cannot view this page without a valid key”…What do I do to stop the email madness?

Thanks!

I don’t remember the costing of tuition indexation, sorry, but I’m sure you can probably dig it up on either 3903 or York’s archives.

@Yorkie,

well, I’d say yes and no, but remember i am now watching it as an outsider while then i was deeply impacted by it, just like most of the posters here are. so my comparison is a bit flawed in that way.

it looks the same to me, or much the same, in terms of the process of bargaining between the two sides. in 2000-01, if i recall correctly , a very long period went on without any talks at all. there was a lot of despair because it did seem like it’ll go on forever. then, bargaining started, went on for a short time, and york requested a forced rat vote. there was a lot of infighting in the union too, so that also seems the same (but also why i would be wary of thinking that infighting in itself means the union will lose support of members at crucial votes – strikes are stressful to those who are striking, so tempers flare, but often union members do end up backing the union when employers force a deal on them or when they think employer is not bargaining in good faith). the proposed remediation period seems the same (and as an aside, it really was not that bad, and certainly the year was not lost). at that time, i think the division between contract faculty and grad students was greater, but that’s really just my impression (it seemed like a very big internal issue then; it seems less so now, perhaps as a result of that strike).

the differences are: the participation of members on the line (my recollection was that the lines were overall pretty strong throughout the 2000-01 strike); university is much more public now although the current president is much less so than marsden (i think marsden or some VPs did come to ‘town hall’ meetings organized in the underground during the strike), last time the university initially insisted that non-striking profs (YUFA or 3903 that opposed the strike) have to continue teaching to get paid, this time university cancelled all classes, and finally last time the Senate was very politicized (it seems that much of the policies around disruption were adopted from the decisions the Senate made during that strike).

Wow, that took me down memory lane:) to me the process or sequence of things looks very similar. on the other hand, i think i was more sure then that the forced rat vote would fail than i am now, simply because members were so much more visibly invested in the strike (pickets etc). but perhaps that had to do with the fact that they had to have strong lines because some teaching WAS still going on – pickets were not only symbolic or representative of the strike as they are now, but really were meant to disrupt work that was still going on.

Your insight is much appreciated. In your experience, do you think this is like a repeat of the 2000/01 strike?