<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">As faculty and staff of the Centre for Comparative Literature, we support all efforts to improve the conditions for scholarship and study at the University of Toronto. We share with our students a commitment to academic integrity and learning, and we deplore the sharp inequalities that have come to characterize different working positions at this university. </font><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">We recognize the precarious labor conditions under which teaching assistants, course instructors and sessional instructors work, and we also recognize the impact these conditions have on the quality of undergraduate education. Teaching assistants and many course instructors are living with below poverty-level wages, and many PhD students are struggling to complete the final years of their degree with a funding package that includes no tuition waivers or financial support. </font><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">We applaud the commitment that our teaching assistants and students have made to address these issues, and we urge the administration to return to the bargaining table as soon as possible. <br class=""></font><div><font color="#5856d6" face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Veronika Ambros<br class="">Eric Cazdyn<br class=""></font><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Rebecca Comay</font></div></div></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Aphrodite Gardner<br class="">Linda Hutcheon<br class="">Eva-Lynn Jagoe<br class="">Thomas Lahusen<br class="">Roland LeHuenen<br class=""><span class="">Victor </span><font class=""><span class="">Li</span></font><br class=""></font><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Peter W. Nesselroth</font></span></div></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Bao Nguyen<br class="">Mary Nyquist<br class=""></font><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Jill Ross</font></span></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class="">Atsuko Sakaki<br class="">John Zilcosky<br class=""></font><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><br class=""></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>