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>From: Richard Coe <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Strike at York University (fwd)
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>Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 16:08:15 -0700 (PDT)
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>> > From [log in to unmask] Tue Apr 8 15:58:14 1997
>> > Subject: Strike at York University
>> > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:57:28 -0400
>> > TO: Members of UTFA Council
>> > FROM: Bill Graham, President
>> >
>> >Faculty and Librarians at York University have now been on strike for
>>fourteen
>> >working days (Monday to Friday). Ministry of Labour mediation efforts
>>failed,
>> >and private meditor Kevin Burkett was appointed by the parties for two days
>>of
>> >intensive mediation to try to end the strike. Talks broke off last night
>> >shortly before midnight with no resolution. Burkett will stay in touch
>> >with the parties.
>> >
>> >Don Savage, Executive Director of CAUT, who observed the mediation, reports
>>that
>> >"throughout these two days, the administration made not one single offer
>>while
>> >YUFA indicated it was prepared to be flexible in the key areas of retirement
>> >(where the administration had stripped the contract and imposed its own
>> >article) and of compensation. The administration simply said that they had
>> >reached their mandate before the mediation started and had no intention of
>> >changing it. Why then had they called in the mediator? A reasonable person
>> >would conclude that they had intended this procedure to fail from the
>> >beginning in the expectation that the morale of the picket lines would be
>> >negatively affected by the failure of the mediation."
>>
>
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Nick Blomley
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
(604) 291-3713 (tel)
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