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Administrative support workers at Carleton University are set to strike Monday morning if last-minute negotiations fail this weekend.
The university and the union representing 850 administrative, library and technical staff are scheduled to bargain on Sunday with the help of a mediator.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2424 set a strike deadline of midnight Sunday, and was signing members up for picket duty.
Classes will continue if there is a strike, said the university in a posting online. “The university has developed contingency plans in an effort to minimize the impact of a labour disruption on students.”
However, the union warned, in a posting aimed at students, that classes may be affected: “Many of our members are directly involved with teaching and learning, and some classes could be disrupted.”
Union members work in the library, residences, academic departments, the registrar’s office, admissions, scheduling and examination services, athletics, health and counselling services, information technology and student accounts, according to the union’s website.
Union members had voted 93 per cent in favour of striking, if necessary.
The main issue in the dispute is the pension plan.
The union said it is trying to stop the university from removing language in the contract that would prevent members from being asked to pay a higher pension contribution rate without the union’s consent, according to information posted online.
“Canadians know that they can no longer take their pensions for granted; workers everywhere, from Sears to Stelco, can attest to that,” Jerrett Clark, president of Local 2424, said in a statement. “That’s why my colleagues and I will fight hard to keep the protections we currently have for our pension plan.”
The university said it is not asking for concessions, according to a statement posted online by president Alastair Summerlee to “correct misinformation.” Carleton said the union is trying to control the pension plan by having a veto right on decisions made by a pension committee, which is already dominated by employees.
“The reality is, it is unfair for any one employee group to have a veto over the pensions of all employee groups, especially when our jointly managed, independent pension committee has been so successful in protecting all Carleton employees’ pensions for more than 30 years,” said Summerlee’s statement.
Carleton’s support staff last went on strike in 2007.
If there is a strike Monday, professors will be expected to show up to work, according to a memo posted by the Carleton University Academic Staff Association. However, the association urged professors to “show solidarity” with strikers by walking the picket line in their free time, and warned them not to do work that is the job of support staff.
During a strike, professors should “appropriately accommodate” students who are delayed getting to class or may have a conscientious objection to crossing a picket line, said the academic association.
Students at York University in Toronto may also face picket lines on Monday. Teaching, graduate and research assistants at York are threatening to strike.
The CUPE local representing them said it had a mandate from members to continue to bargain this weekend. However, a statement from York University on Saturday said the union’s demands were unreasonable and the two sides were too far apart to return to bargaining “at this time.”
jmiller@postmedia.com
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The university and the union representing 850 administrative, library and technical staff are scheduled to bargain on Sunday with the help of a mediator.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2424 set a strike deadline of midnight Sunday, and was signing members up for picket duty.
Classes will continue if there is a strike, said the university in a posting online. “The university has developed contingency plans in an effort to minimize the impact of a labour disruption on students.”
However, the union warned, in a posting aimed at students, that classes may be affected: “Many of our members are directly involved with teaching and learning, and some classes could be disrupted.”
Union members work in the library, residences, academic departments, the registrar’s office, admissions, scheduling and examination services, athletics, health and counselling services, information technology and student accounts, according to the union’s website.
Union members had voted 93 per cent in favour of striking, if necessary.
The main issue in the dispute is the pension plan.
The union said it is trying to stop the university from removing language in the contract that would prevent members from being asked to pay a higher pension contribution rate without the union’s consent, according to information posted online.
“Canadians know that they can no longer take their pensions for granted; workers everywhere, from Sears to Stelco, can attest to that,” Jerrett Clark, president of Local 2424, said in a statement. “That’s why my colleagues and I will fight hard to keep the protections we currently have for our pension plan.”
The university said it is not asking for concessions, according to a statement posted online by president Alastair Summerlee to “correct misinformation.” Carleton said the union is trying to control the pension plan by having a veto right on decisions made by a pension committee, which is already dominated by employees.
“The reality is, it is unfair for any one employee group to have a veto over the pensions of all employee groups, especially when our jointly managed, independent pension committee has been so successful in protecting all Carleton employees’ pensions for more than 30 years,” said Summerlee’s statement.
Carleton’s support staff last went on strike in 2007.
If there is a strike Monday, professors will be expected to show up to work, according to a memo posted by the Carleton University Academic Staff Association. However, the association urged professors to “show solidarity” with strikers by walking the picket line in their free time, and warned them not to do work that is the job of support staff.
During a strike, professors should “appropriately accommodate” students who are delayed getting to class or may have a conscientious objection to crossing a picket line, said the academic association.
Students at York University in Toronto may also face picket lines on Monday. Teaching, graduate and research assistants at York are threatening to strike.
The CUPE local representing them said it had a mandate from members to continue to bargain this weekend. However, a statement from York University on Saturday said the union’s demands were unreasonable and the two sides were too far apart to return to bargaining “at this time.”
jmiller@postmedia.com
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