The Globe and Mail: CUPE working to gain student support to increase its clout
Union leaders, working to set the stage for provincewide bargaining at Ontario universities in 2010, planned to gain student support for their cause with campus barbecues, pub nights and protests against rising tuition fees, internal planning documents show.
The union strategy, developed by a group within the Canadian Union of Public Employees, calls for contracts of CUPE workers to expire at the same time as a way to increase bargaining clout.
The demand for such a two-year deal is a central issue in the strike at York University, which has halted classes for 50,000 students since Thursday. That dispute involves teaching assistants, contract faculty and graduate assistants who are CUPE members.
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