Bargaining Newsletter #17: A Tentative Agreement is reached! Will we accept it? You decide!
Monday 15 April 2024 Content warning: this newsletter describes AGSEM’s negotiations with McGill around policies on harassment,...
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Apr 74 min read
AGSEM's update on negotiations, strike, and TA working conditions with regard to the mass email sent by McGill HR on April 5, 2024
April 7, 2024 Negotiations McGill’s latest email is their first public statement on negotiations. We have been publishing detailed...
Apr 38 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #16: A deal is within reach—will McGill do the work to reach an agreement?
Tuesday 2 April, 2024 Content warning: this newsletter describes AGSEM’s negotiations with McGill around policies on harassment,...
Apr 31 min read
McGill Refuses to unlock McGill Emails
McGill refuses to restore systems access, including employee emails, to TAs until the strike is over.
Mar 253 min read
Letter to the employer: Agreement regarding s. 109.1 ss. c of the Labour Code
Recently, the McGill administration has suggested that TAs who also hold other forms of employment on campus will be suspended or terminated
Mar 242 min read
TA work belongs to TAs
AGSEM calls on McGill to stop asserting their dubious and self-serving legal interpretations as fact and instead focus on coming to the...
Mar 222 min read
CEASE AND DESIST regarding the employer's directives to course supervisors
Two documents produced by the Employer have been shared with us and raise serious concerns.
Mar 204 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #15: McGill has the power to avert a strike—will they?
Tuesday 19 March, 2024 It has been two weeks since AGSEM and McGill last met for negotiations—and what an eventful two weeks it has been!...
Mar 74 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #14: Conciliation has begun with a strike vote less than a week away
A new chapter in bargaining with a strike vote a week away Tuesday, March 5, 2024 RSVP for the TA strike vote assembly! It’s been a busy...
Mar 25 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #13: McGill’s latest offer well below inflation and demands of TAs
McGill’s latest counterproposal leaves TAs no closer to a deal Monday February 26, 2024 On Monday, February 26th, AGSEM and McGill met...
Feb 223 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #12: With a strike vote weeks away, TAs are still waiting for a serious offer from McGill
AGSEM makes a counter offer. What will McGill’s next offer be? Tuesday February 20, 2024 On Tuesday, February 20th, AGSEM and McGill met...
Feb 206 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #11: McGill starts to budge on wages, but remains inflexible on healthcare and indexation
AGSEM and McGill have recently met twice for negotiations of a new Collective Agreement for TAs: on February 9th, and February 13th.
Feb 54 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #10: A pay cut is NOT a serious offer
On Friday February 2nd, 2024, McGill gave us their wage offer...which is a pay cut.
Feb 26 min read
Teaching Assistants Push to Hold Strike Mandate Vote
Teaching Assistants voted unanimously to approve a motion that mandates AGSEM to increase pressure tactics, including a strike vote.
Jan 214 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #9: When will McGill get serious about negotiations?
It’s a new year, a new semester, and we are back at the bargaining table, fighting for a new contract for McGill TAs!
Jan 94 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #8: New Year, New Wage
This past semester, AGSEM’s TA negotiations ended with a bang! We made progress on nonmonetary articles and presented our monetary proposal!
Dec 15, 20234 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #7: Progress on hiring lists; resistance on protections from harassment
On the 5th of December, AGSEM met with the employer for the 7th negotiation session for a new collective agreement for Teaching Assistants.
Dec 1, 20234 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #6: Specific Forms of Harassment on the Job - Not a Problem Worth Solving?
McGill demonstrated, once again, their unwillingness to make changes that respond to the needs of our members.
Nov 26, 20236 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #5: TAs are the Experts on our Working Conditions
Negotiations are starting to get 🔥heated🔥!
Nov 20, 20235 min read
Bargaining Newsletter #4: Fact-check: Open Bargaining Works!
On Tuesday, November 14th, Teaching Assistants had their fourth session of negotiations for a new Collective Agreement with McGill!
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