... It would be irresponsible (and verging on illegal) for the CUPE 3903 bargaining team to represent any interests besides those of its membership when developing bargaining strategies. [source: Discussion topic: "Response from Tyler regarding stakeholders," York University Anti-Strike Group, Facebook]This statement was offered as explanation for the following statement, also by Shipley:
Bargaining takes place between CUPE 3903 and the York administration – there is a reason the students aren’t at the table – it’s because they aren’t stakeholders in the actual contract we’re negotiating, so this is not going to dictate how we proceed in bargaining [source]which in turn was a response to the demand from York Not Hostage for a one-week deadline for negotiations to wrap up.
From the first statement, we have an open acknowledgment that CUPE bargaining teams cannot, and should not, consider the interests of anyone other than their own membership. Considering this in light of CUPE's 2010 plan, it is therefore equally irresponsible for CUPE to claim that their drive for coordinated bargaining has undergraduates' best interests at heart. As Shipley himself notes, any group of people whose interests are not completely aligned with CUPE's will be disregarded by the bargaining team.
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Thank you for posting this. It only makes the obvious even more evident: CUPE doesn't give a hoot about the students. (Neither does the university administration, for that matter - else they'd be offering students financial support or partial refunds due to the strike)
To CUPE's way of thinking, students are only collateral damage in CUPE's war against the State.
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