Toronto Star: Time to end York strike, professor says
Dec 02, 2008 04:30 AM
As a faculty member, I am distressed by the debilitating effects on students of the avoidable labour dispute and lockout between management and contract faculty/tutorial assistants at York University. Many of these students have been victims of strikes since they were in elementary school in the anti-education years of the Harris government. Now my fourth-year students end their 17 years of schooling with this debacle. York’s administration cannot replace the time lost or the resources wasted. Hardball tactics over the years have resulted in a series of often lengthy strikes with faculty, admin staff and contract teaching staff. York’s management rhetoric on academic standards, currently amplified for the 50th anniversary in 2009, is hollow when students feel betrayed and abandoned.
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