McGill teaching assistants have voted to strike on the first day of exams. The administration has its horns locked with the AGSEM, the teaching assistants’ union, primarily over pay; although there are other issues at stake. This is not the first time that graduate students are striking on McGill campus. The last one, a two-month strike in 2008, was particularly grueling. Nor are collective bargaining impasses all that uncommon between the two protagonists. Since its founding in 1993, the AGSEM has struck four collective agreements with the university. All of them sans one involved protracted bargaining.
McGill TAs Strike Again: A Simple Proposal
McGill TAs Strike Again: A Simple Proposal
McGill TAs Strike Again: A Simple Proposal
McGill teaching assistants have voted to strike on the first day of exams. The administration has its horns locked with the AGSEM, the teaching assistants’ union, primarily over pay; although there are other issues at stake. This is not the first time that graduate students are striking on McGill campus. The last one, a two-month strike in 2008, was particularly grueling. Nor are collective bargaining impasses all that uncommon between the two protagonists. Since its founding in 1993, the AGSEM has struck four collective agreements with the university. All of them sans one involved protracted bargaining.