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The 2018 York University strike was a strike by CUPE Local 3903, the union representing contract professors, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] At 143 days long it is the longest strike in the post-secondary sector in Canadian history, surpassing the previous record of the 1976 Laval University 108-day ...
Ontario College Professor John Stammers fatally injured while trying to stop car from crossing picket line. [52] Ontario college strike: What you need to know Ontario colleges to resume classes after bitter strike; 2007 - Supreme Court of Canada rules that collective bargaining is a constitutional right protected by The Charter of Rights and ...
This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in 2024 since protests escalated on April 17, beginning with the Columbia University campus occupation.As of May 6, student protests have occurred in 45 out of 50 states in the United States, and the District of Columbia, with encampments, occupations, walkouts or sit-ins on almost 140 campuses.
The strike officially began on February 13, 2012, with students at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and University Laval voting massively in opposition to augmentation of university tuition fees. [23] Beginning late February 2012, nine per cent of Quebec students, or 36,000 students, went on strike, using a square red flag for protest ...
GESO participated in a five-day strike along with other unions in Yale University in March 2003 for better wages and pensions and demand for union recognition. [42] However, in a union voting drive the following May, Yale graduate students rejected unionization by a narrow 694–651 margin. [43]
The Directors Guild of Canada BC’s strike deadline has now passed. Asked if the guild is on strike, a spokesperson told Deadline that “the answer isn’t as simple” in British Columbia ...
A common tactic of student protest is to go on strike (sometimes called a boycott of classes), which occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class. It is meant to resemble strike action by organized labour. Whereas a normal strike is intended to inflict economic damage to ...
Student strikes in Canada (1 C, 3 P) F. Student strikes in France (1 C, ... This list may not reflect recent changes. ... 2021–2022 Columbia University strike; D.