{"id":4562,"date":"2008-10-06T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/10\/ontario-students-support-striking-faculty\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T20:08:30","slug":"ontario-students-support-striking-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/10\/ontario-students-support-striking-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario students support striking faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers World:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.workers.org\/2008\/world\/ontario_1009\/\"> Ontario students support striking faculty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in 26 years, the Windsor University Faculty Association went on strike Sept. 17 at the University of Windsor, a university of 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students in southern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor University Faculty Association are<br \/>fighting for union pay scales and working<br \/>conditions that cover the part-time<br \/>instructors who now make up to 45 percent<br \/>of the teaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an all-out effort by our association to send a message loud and clear to this administration that we want a collective agreement,\u201d Brian Brown, president of WUFA, told a crowd of over 1,000 supporters Sept. 19 at the University of Windsor. \u201cBut we want it to be fair and equitable and just. And we don\u2019t want to be at the bottom of the scale of Ontario universities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers World: Ontario students support striking faculty For the first time in 26 years, the Windsor University Faculty Association went on strike Sept. 17 at the University of Windsor, a university of 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students in southern Ontario. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/10\/ontario-students-support-striking-faculty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272,2273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}