Retrospective: Great York University Strikes

The York University Staff Association (YUSA), made up of 1,000 secretarial workers and library technicians, prepares to strike in the fall of 1978; they’re worried about administration contracting out their jobs, as well as the notion new technological advanc- es may make some of their work ‘obsolete.’ They also ask for a 10-percent wage increase, where the university offers four percent.

Galloway incites protest

The brutal wind and the pouring rain did not stop protestors from gathering to rally against a presentation by controversial guest speaker former British MP George Galloway at York Nov. 16.