[Fdu] CUPE 3903 on Ministry of Labour industrial inquiry re: srike

[Cynthia Wright]

  Ministry of Labour Appoints Industrial Inquiry Commission

Posted on April 13, 2018 
<https://3903.cupe.ca/2018/04/13/ministry-of-labour-appoints-industrial-inquiry-commission/>by 
CUPE 3903 Communications Officer 
<https://3903.cupe.ca/author/cupe-3903-communications-officer/>

The Ministry of Labour has appointed an industrial inquiry commission to 
investigate the strike and produce a report for the Minister. This 
report will take two to three weeks.

CUPE 3903 will cooperate fully with the Ministry’s fact-finding mission. 
However, we had hoped for a more meaningful intervention by the 
government. As a public institution, York University should be 
accountable. Their refusal to bargain should not be allowed to continue.

This process is neither mediation nor arbitration. It is not an 
alternative to bargaining, and its main purpose is to inform the 
Minister of the current situation. The report may still help resolve the 
conflict, but there is no guarantee of this. Two to three weeks is too 
long to wait for what is only the potential for a resolution.

The suggestion to suspend the strike for the duration of the commission 
is a shameless grab for summer tuition. Displacing this conflict to 
another semester is not good for students, for whom the uncertainty and 
anxiety would only be prolonged. We expect that York University will 
return to bargaining while we await the results of the inquiry.


  For more information:

Read the Ministry’s announcement 
<https://news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2018/04/ontario-appoints-expert-to-investigate-six-week-strike.html>





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