Teaching Assistants at University of Toronto set strike deadline
TORONTO, Ont. – Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3902, the union representing all 4,200 teaching assistants, graduate-student instructors, lab demonstrators, invigilators and writing instructors at the three University of Toronto campuses, have rejected the tentative agreement reached by the Union and the University during conciliation. At a membership meeting on January [...]
Before you sign your contract…
As we enter into a new year, hundreds of new TA and RA contracts will be signed. Before signing yours, you should familiarize yourself with your rights as an employee and as a union member. All TAs and RAs are members of TRAC by default and covered by the TRAC Collective Agreement. 1. Read the [...]
The McGill Daily: TAs avoid strike
McGill accedes to three of union’s five demands, but hours will not be increased By Michael Lee-Murphy Published on November 26, 2011 For the first time in their history, McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) have signed a new collective agreement without going on strike. In a General Assembly last Thursday, the TA unit of the Association [...]
The McGill Daily – Commentary: Support your TAs
By the Editorial Board Published on November 21, 2011 Students may not realize it, but there’s another labour dispute brewing at McGill – one that has nothing to do with MUNACA. McGill’s teaching union, AGSEM, has been in negotiations with the administration over a new contract for TAs since March. Last Friday, after months of [...]
August Bargaining Update
Hi everybody, Tentative Collective Agreement The executive of TRAC signed new tentative agreements with the University today for both the RA contract and the TA contract. The ratification vote for the TA contract will be taking place from 1pm-3pm on Tuesday, August 31, 2010. The ratification vote for the RA contract will be taking [...]
July Bargaining Update
TRAC is still negotiating with the university, but has yet to reach a deal that we feel is presentable to our members. Negotiating during the summer has made it difficult, as it is tough to be able to get both sides available to meet. Nonetheless, it seems that progress is being made. As it stands, [...]
May Bargaining Update
Well there is no resolution after returning back to the negotiating table with the university, but some of the misconceptions surrounding the previous offer by the university have been clarified. The misconceptions were based on funding, i.e. that all PhD and Masters students that were doing Grade 1 TAship were receiving funding and also some [...]
New TRAC Executive Elected
On 18 February 2010 the TRAC General Assembly elected executive and bargaining committees.
