{"id":8821,"date":"2012-03-20T14:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2012-03-20T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:37:04","slug":"ubc-frets-over-strike-votes-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/ubc-frets-over-strike-votes-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Frets over Strike Votes on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

CUPE 116 members overwhelmingly approved a strike motion last week and CUPE 2278, Graduate Teaching Assistants, vote on a strike motion on Thursday. \u00a0AVP, Human Resources, Lisa Castle circulated today an advisory that “the University has concerns with the manner in which the Union [CUPE 2278] is presenting information to support a positive vote. \u00a0They state on their website that the University\u2019s negotiating team has not listened to them.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0GTAs are countering<\/a> that a\u00a0“‘yes’ vote is a show of support… And the threat of a strike means our issues have to be taken seriously; a strong positive strike vote makes it possible for us to make gains at the table.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CUPE 116 members overwhelmingly approved a strike motion last week and CUPE 2278, Graduate Teaching Assistants, vote on a strike motion on Thursday. \u00a0AVP, Human Resources, Lisa Castle circulated today an advisory that “the University has concerns with the manner … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2257,2265,2271,2272,5038,2273],"tags":[1288960,1288961],"class_list":["post-8821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-rights","category-organizing","category-strikes","category-strikes-labor-disputes","category-student-movement","category-students","tag-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821","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\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}