Library Workers at Concordia University voted last November to mandate strike actions after 18 months of negotiations with the university failed to produce a contract. According to The Link, the strike mandate requires the Concordia University Library Employees Union to strike for a total of eight hours, and two and a half were carried out on Thursday, January 16th.
The university and CULEU had been holding conciliation meetings with the last one ending Monday as the two sides ran into "major blockages." The major sticking points appear to hinge around changes the university is attempting to make to advancement schedules, particularly for new employees. Union leadership says that this has been a goal of the university since the union was formed. Library workers see this as a barrier for new employees and an attack on how they have come to understand their place within the university. According to CULEU leadership, the university failed to negotiate on this issue through all of 2019 and shows no signs of accepting employees' "hands off" perspecitive.
Once CULEU has spent its mandated 8 strike hours it will convene a new general assembly to determine next steps.
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Friday, December 6, 2019
Concordia University Library employees vote in favor of strike mandate
Montreal, QC - Members of the Concordia University Library Employees Union (CSN)(CULEU), represented by the Fédération des employées et employés de services publics (FEESP-CSN), voted November 29th in favor of a strike mandate after 18 months of negotiations. CULEU's President has stated that Concordia's "insistence on severely restricting advancement possibilities for new employees" has been a sticking point since the beginning of the year. This has compounded frustrations as the university is refusing to even discuss another topic until this issue is settled.
The 17th bargaining session was scheduled to begin today, Dec. 6th, and will be attended by a conciliator from the Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale (MTESS). The union is hopeful that the conciliator's presence will move talks forward.
Along with the mandate, CULEU has also set up a strike fund to support workers should a work stoppage be called.
The 17th bargaining session was scheduled to begin today, Dec. 6th, and will be attended by a conciliator from the Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale (MTESS). The union is hopeful that the conciliator's presence will move talks forward.
Along with the mandate, CULEU has also set up a strike fund to support workers should a work stoppage be called.
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