[Fdu] Fwd: Strike Vote at Laurentian University

[Peter Fitting]

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> From: The Bullet <info at socialistproject.ca>
> Date: October 3, 2017 at 05:05:56 GMT+2
> To: p.fitting at utoronto.ca
> Subject: Strike Vote at Laurentian University
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> A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1491 ... October 3, 2017
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> Strike Vote at Laurentian University
> 
> In the latest turmoil in the Canadian university sector, faculty at
> Laurentian University are now on strike. At the core is the longstanding
> vices of the neoliberal university -- underfunding, lack of hiring faculty,
> commercialization and privatization, and the hiring of a vast bureaucracy
> of private managers in the ceaseless efforts to benchmark, marketize and
> monetize ‘assets’. Ontario is the province that has by many measures
> the most poorly funded university sector in Canada; it has been steadily
> running its public university system down, and increasing the portion of
> operating funds coming from student fees (masked by re-packaging aid
> programs and misleading selling it as free tuition).
> 
> Members of the Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) voted
> ninety-one per cent in favour of job action in the event that a new
> collective agreement cannot be reached with the University’s Board of
> Governors.
> 
> "We are most grateful for this strong show of support from our members,"
> said LUFA president Jim Ketchen. "We don’t want to strike, but will if
> the administration isn’t willing to negotiate a fair collective
> agreement." LUFA is fighting concession demands that would erode core
> faculty rights, reduce salary scale competitiveness and diminish
> eligibility for parental/pregnancy leave.
> 
> The parties met with a mediator but negotiations are now suspended. The
> union’s previous contract expired on June 30. LUFA represents 367
> full-time faculty and over 200 sessional staff, have been in a legal strike
> position since September 28.
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