The Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) is the oldest Teaching Assistant Union in the province of Quebec. As a labour union, AGSEM represents graduate Teaching Assistants, Invigilators, and Course-Based Academic Casuals at McGill. AGSEM has bargained with the McGill administration to produce TA and Invigilator Collective Agreements, which are legal documents that protect student workers.
Recent NewsAGSEM Cuts Ties with Wix in Solidarity with Palestine
In October 2023, AGSEM’s Delegate Council adopted its Motion of solidarity with Palestine, which resolved that “AGSEM Delegates’ Council will take tangible steps to boycott Israeli products and services, such as by transitioning away from website and email servers hosted by a company that benefits from the occupation of Palestinian land.” This resolution referred to our use of WIX, a website builder owned by an Israeli company. AGSEM has been hard at work rebuilding the website since then.
Unit 3 Bargaining Newsletter #0: AGSEM’s Unit 3 is ready to negotiate—why isn’t McGill?
Course-based academic casuals hold their first assembly and elect their first bargaining committee! It’s was a historic day for course-based academic casuals at McGill! On 27 November 2024, the recently unionized unit (Unit 3) of course-based academic casuals held their first Unit Assembly as a part of AGSEM. At this assembly, members set their priorities for negotiations, elected their first bargaining committee, elected a bargaining support committee, and agreed on a mobilization strategy.
Statement on assault of AGSEM member on Dec 11, 2024:
On Dec 11, 2024, an armed security agent assaulted and detained an AGSEM member and worker in the McConnell Engineering building. When this member saw an armed security agent, she took a photo. In response, the security agent put his hand to his gun, grabbed her arm, and held her against the wall. He attempted to question her and said that he would break her camera while refusing to identify himself or tell her what she was accused of.