Counterpoint – Know what? The strike wasn’t so bad
Why shouldn’t we mark this anniversary with a look at the brighter side of the Great Strike?
Tag: Strike
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.
How the strike saved my school life
While CUPE 3903 and York were in meetings, arguing over contracts, I was at the doctor’s office discovering that I had caught infectious mononucleosis.