Looks like U of T is willing to give its TA union a 2-year contract.
At U of T, the TA union does not include sessional faculty, so a strike by this unit of the union would not be as disruptive as the strike at York. The sessional faculty are in Unit 3, and their contract expires in 2009.
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Fyi, a two-year contract for the U of T teaching assistants would be entirely different from the York situation. Since the U of T TAs have been without a contract for a year, that means the contract would be up in fall of 2009, thus avoiding the 2010 coordination date. So U of T has offered both 2 year and 4 year contracts - but CUPE 3902 is asking for 3 years.
Interesting. Thanks for that.
A quick clarification: the contract of TAs at the UofT expired on 30 April 2008; a retroactively applied two-year deal -- which is the framework that both the union and admin are working with -- would mean an expiration date of April 2010.
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