U of T teaching assistants could strike Friday
Posted February 21, 2012 7:40 am.
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A strike deadline is drawing near for more than 4,000 teaching assistants at the University of Toronto, as they prepare to walk off the job this Friday.
Members of CUPE 3902 – which includes teaching assistants, graduate-student instructors and lab demonstrators – and U of T brass will be meeting Tuesday to try to negotiate another contract, after the employees rejected the latest offer by a vote of 96 per cent.
The union says its key issues are tutorial and lab sizes, research support and pay rates.
A strike could affect 70,000 students at all three campuses
The assistants have been without a contract since April 30, 2011.