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<H1 class=entry-title>Statement of Solidarity with CUPE 3902, Unit 1 by
WGSI members</H1></HEADER>
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<P><STRONG>We, as faculty, teachers, staff, and students of the Women and Gender
Studies Institute, stand together in support of improving the conditions for
scholarship and study at the University of Toronto for all members of our
community. </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>We share a common commitment to academic integrity and learning, as
well as recognition of the sharp inequalities that have come to condition the
different working roles at the University. </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>We recognize the precarious labor conditions that teaching
assistants, course instructors and sessional instructors work under, as well as
the fact that working conditions are structurally tied to the quality of
undergraduate education. </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Teaching assistants and many course instructors are also full-time
graduate students living below the poverty line, and PhD student whose funding
packages leave students in their final years with no tuition waivers or
financial supports. </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>As a community of scholars, teachers, staff, and students at WGSI
committed to the future of intellectual work, we support the efforts of its
members to address these inequalities and to together build a university where
its members learn and work with dignity. </STRONG></P>
<P>Salina Abji</P>
<P>Nikoli Attai</P>
<P>Beverly Bain</P>
<P>Abinaya Balasubramaniam</P>
<P>Oli Clayton Bédard</P>
<P>Afra Michael Boissevain</P>
<P>Sara Carpenter</P>
<P>Tyler Carson</P>
<P>Nicole Charles</P>
<P>Jennifer Chun</P>
<P>Sonny Dhoot</P>
<P>Renée Ferguson</P>
<P>Dina Georgis</P>
<P>Zoe Gross</P>
<P>Connie Gubberman</P>
<P>Brianna Hersey</P>
<P>June Larkin</P>
<P>Marieme Lo</P>
<P>Lynn Ly</P>
<P>Anne McGuire</P>
<P>Shahrzad Mojab</P>
<P>Kathryn Morgan</P>
<P>Michelle Murphy</P>
<P>Mary Nyquist</P>
<P>Henar Perales</P>
<P>Karyn Recollet</P>
<P>Marian Reed</P>
<P>Joanne Saliba</P>
<P>Joan Simalchik</P>
<P>Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani</P>
<P>Nora Tataryan</P>
<P>Judith Taylor</P>
<P>Tanya Titchkosky</P>
<P>S. Trimble</P>
<P>Alissa Trotz</P>
<P>Evan Vipond</P>
<P>Rinaldo Walcott</P>
<P>Paul Weadick</P>
<P>Zohar Weiman-Kelman</P>
<P>Nicole Yiu</P>
<P>Lisa Yoneyama</P>
<P>Colleen Young</P>
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<P><EM><STRONG>IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD YOU NAME TO THIS STATEMENT, PLEASE EMAIL
<A href="mailto:michelle.murphy@utoronto.ca"
sl-processed="1">michelle.murphy@utoronto.ca</A></STRONG></EM></P>
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