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CityNews.ca - Toronto’s News: Latest York Offer Criticized By Union

The three-year offer, made public Wednesday, outlines 0.7 per cent more in benefits such as child care and professional development and offers more job security than earlier deals. But the wage hike remains the same at 9.25 per cent.

(Jules pulls up soapbox)
I’m curious to know what world the York university teachers are living in. And that union… wow. Perhaps they want to take a page from the CAW history.
God given Guarantees on wages?
Job Security as if it was a First Amendment right?
I beg your pardon?

Raises should, for argument’s sake, be merit based, not a *given*.
Job security - same thing.
Do a good job, keep your job, get a raise.
When unions begin mandating these components, merit and performance goes out the window. So goes quality education with it.

Pfft.
Silly nutters.

If I was a York student, I’d be taking my tuition money and walking it over to a different university right about now. It’s January. It’s not too late to cancel out of this semester’s courses and get atleast some of your money back.
With 55,000 students, and an average semester costing $8K - that’s $440,000,000 that should just walk away. *That* would effectively end the strike.

Comments

[maja]

Hi, I am York student. Tuition fees were paid in September and for sure we will not get back one cent from fall semester. I can just drop course without receiving grade, but with no money back. What would effectively end the strike is to fire most of that guys on picket lines. Next hired would probably care also about students not only their wallets.

[sam]

I am a york student also, and leavning york is not an option- no money pack and no grade. I think at this point what the TAs are doing is absolutely disgusting! What a shame that they can be so money hungry. They are the highest paid in the country, PRIOR to the strike. They should be happy they have a position, if anything. If other schools, its really competitive to get a TA position at all. I'm sure more than half of them don't derserve where they are anyways. Enjoy you coffee and donut at the picket lines as you deprive students of a good education.

[jules]

I'm old - but not that old ;-)
You can usually take your University credits to any other university and they will be recognized at that new university. Didn't you guys pay a semester at a time? So you've lost the fall semester (you likely aren't going to get reimbursed for that one anyways). But you can cancel your tuition for the winter semester, and transfer your completed course credits to another university.

It would be worth looking into.
:-)

[maja]

jules, university accepts max. 60% of credits from another university. anyway, I don't have any credits, we get stuck in the middle of semester. my program opens only in September in another university, so I would lose whole year. that would mean also to splash to toilet all my student loan and problem to get another next year, to pay back this one... and who wants York student that set at home half of semester... ( who will want graduate after self-study for half of his studies? it looks for strike every second year)
sam is right. TAs in other universities are paid less than York's, they understand that they are students and when miss money, they take a loan or work. And they care about students unlike our TAs.

[Alex]

It's obvious that the university lost and cannot be repair the quality of education for this particular year. One of the solution might be for all students to get all tuition money back through the court and then sue university for the lost and wasted one year of life. This is a regular practice for any business failure.
This strike is a bad example for the country's future generation.

[Dean]

Hello, I am a York University 1st year undergraduate. I don't hate CUPE or York - sometimes things like this happen, unfortunately they should have come to an agreement by now. I'm only concerned about my tuition and education. If they cancel the term I BETTER GET A TUITION REFUND! This isn't pocket change! Or at the least credit my tuition to next year. I don't think they will screw around with the 50,000 students tuition's because their will be countless law firms who would want to get involved on the students behalf.