Last Thursday, student newspaper The Gazette reports, members of the Western University community rallied in solidarity with the school's librarians and archivists, represented by Western University of Ontario Faculty Association, who have yet to reach an agreement with school administration after a summer of negotiations.
In early September, the WUOFA filed a no-board report to the Ministry of Labor which will allow them to strike as early as mid-October.
The demonstration was organized by members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada's Local 610 which represents postdoctoral students and graduate teaching assistants in support of WUOFA. Ontario Public Sector Employees Union members also showed up to the demonstration, citing WUOFA's support of their own strike two years ago as cause for OPSEU to return the favor now.
Disagreements between WUOFA and Western University are primarily workload related, with a 20% decline in library employees since 2010.
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