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                                                          style="margin-top:6.0pt;
margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span
                                                          style="font-size:12pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Following more than six months of
                                                          bargaining to
                                                          reach a
                                                          negotiated
                                                          agreement with
                                                          CUPE 3903, and
                                                          now more than
                                                          nine weeks
                                                          into a strike,
                                                          York
                                                          University’s
                                                          President and
Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton has asked the provincial government to
                                                          take immediate
                                                          legislative
                                                          action today.</span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Yesterday,
                                                          the Hon.
                                                          Mitzie Hunter,
                                                          Minister of
                                                          Advanced
                                                          Education and
                                                          Skills
                                                          Development
                                                          spoke directly
                                                          to both York
                                                          and CUPE 3903
                                                          and asked the
                                                          parties to
                                                          meet to
                                                          discuss
                                                          consensual
                                                          arbitration –
                                                          a
                                                          recommendation
                                                          made by
                                                          William Kaplan
                                                          in the
                                                          government-appointed
                                                          Industrial
                                                          Inquiry
                                                          Commission
                                                          (IIC).
                                                          President
                                                          Lenton
                                                          immediately
                                                          endorsed the
                                                          report and
                                                          directed
                                                          York’s
                                                          bargaining
                                                          team to reach
                                                          out to CUPE
                                                          3903 to
                                                          discuss the
                                                          terms for
                                                          interest
                                                          arbitration. </span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Unfortunately,
                                                          yesterday,
                                                          CUPE 3903
                                                          rejected the
                                                          IIC Report’s
                                                          findings that
                                                          the parties
                                                          allow an
                                                          independent
                                                          third-party to
                                                          break the
                                                          impasse and
                                                          end the
                                                          strike.
                                                          Despite this,
                                                          York invited
                                                          CUPE 3903 to
                                                          join the
                                                          University
                                                          bargaining
                                                          team this
                                                          morning at an
                                                          8:00 am
                                                          meeting to
                                                          discuss how to
                                                          move forward
                                                          to implement
                                                          the </span></span></span><a
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style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span
                                                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">IIC
                                                          report
                                                          recommendations</span></span></span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:107%"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, but CUPE 3903 did not reply to
                                                          the invitation
                                                          and did not
                                                          attend the
                                                          meeting.</span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“There
                                                          has been no
                                                          path to
                                                          reaching a
                                                          settlement at
                                                          the table for
                                                          many weeks.
                                                          The ongoing
                                                          actions by
                                                          CUPE 3903
                                                          further
                                                          jeopardize our
                                                          50,000
                                                          undergraduate
                                                          students,
                                                          researchers,
                                                          and graduate
                                                          students, and
                                                          have a
                                                          far-reaching
                                                          negative
                                                          ripple effect
                                                          on our
                                                          students,
                                                          their future,
                                                          and their
                                                          families,”
                                                          said Lenton.</span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Students
                                                          who are
                                                          expecting to
                                                          graduate are
                                                          facing great
                                                          uncertainty
                                                          that is
                                                          impacting
                                                          their career,
                                                          including the
                                                          loss of job
                                                          opportunities,
                                                          further
                                                          studies, and
                                                          the impacts of
                                                          stress on
                                                          their mental
                                                          health.</span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Government
                                                          intervention
                                                          is urgently
                                                          needed, and
                                                          time is
                                                          running out
                                                          for any
                                                          legislative
                                                          option to be
                                                          possible. The
                                                          government
                                                          must act now.
                                                          That’s why I
                                                          called
                                                          Minister
                                                          Hunter this
                                                          morning to ask
                                                          that she
                                                          advise the
                                                          Minister of
                                                          Labour to
                                                          immediately
                                                          introduce back
                                                          to work
                                                          legislation to
                                                          end the strike
                                                          and initiate
                                                          binding
                                                          arbitration,”
                                                          Lenton said.
                                                          Legislative
                                                          action is now
                                                          the only way
                                                          to ensure that
                                                          some of the
                                                          academic year
                                                          can be
                                                          salvaged,
                                                          including </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:107%"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">make-up classes and exams to
                                                          complete the
                                                          winter term,
                                                          alternative
                                                          learning
                                                          options for
                                                          those who are
                                                          no longer able
                                                          to resume
                                                          normal
                                                          classes, and
                                                          to ensure that
                                                          spring
                                                          convocation
                                                          stays on
                                                          schedule and</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-CA"><span style="line-height:107%"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> preserve what remains of the
                                                          summer
                                                          sessions.</span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
                                                          University
                                                          engaged in
                                                          good-faith
                                                          bargaining for
                                                          more than six
                                                          months and
                                                          presented CUPE
                                                          3903 with the
                                                          best offer in
                                                          the sector, in
                                                          Ontario, on
                                                          March 1.</span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
                                                          IIC report
                                                          clearly states
                                                          what the
                                                          University has
                                                          been saying
                                                          for many
                                                          months: CUPE
                                                          3903 in its
                                                          current state
                                                          is not capable
                                                          or willing to
                                                          modify its
                                                          positions to
                                                          reach a
                                                          settlement. </span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p
                                                          style="margin-top:6.0pt;
margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span
                                                          style="line-height:13.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-CA"><span
                                                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Back-to-work
                                                          legislation is
                                                          now the only
                                                          option, a last
                                                          resort option
                                                          that the
                                                          University
                                                          does not take
                                                          lightly but
                                                          one that was
                                                          clearly put
                                                          forward in the
                                                          IIC Report: <i>“Failing
                                                          consensual
                                                          interest
                                                          arbitration,
                                                          and assuming
                                                          the
                                                          continuation
                                                          of this
                                                          dispute,
                                                          legislative
                                                          intervention
                                                          imposing
                                                          interest
                                                          arbitration
                                                          will almost
                                                          certainly be
                                                          necessary.”</i></span></span></span></p>
                                                          <p><span
                                                          style="font-size:12.0pt"
                                                          lang="EN-CA"><span
style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">York
                                                          calls on all
                                                          Ontario MPPs
                                                          to support
                                                          back-to-work
                                                          legislation.
                                                          Our 50,000
                                                          undergraduate
                                                          students and
                                                          their families
                                                          have paid too
                                                          high a price
                                                          already and
                                                          need the
                                                          government’s
                                                          action
                                                          immediately. </span></span></span></p>
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