York, Act Your Age

[colouredpencils1]

I bet cupe cant wait to get back to there students who will welcome them with open arms. thanks you greedy fucks. see you monday

[tortalinee]

FUCK YOU CUPE FOR RUINING MY YEAR! You are all ungrateful bastards wanting above the poverty line...

[krissybear101]

lol, this is silly... "Why is York University paying less than 10% of their revenue to the CUPE 3903 members that do over 50% of the teaching"

let me tell you why... PAYING TEACHERS IS NOT THEIR ONLY EXPENSE!! There is playing all the non teaching staff of york and their benefits, utilities, taxes, scholarships and bursary funds, operating costs, interest on long term debt... and more! Come on CUPE, you are all supposed to be educated, act YOUR age!!

[tinkerpanda]

No shit.

Property taxes, social programs, faculties, building upkeep and supplies, residence staff, etc. etc. etc. etc.  Universities have a LOT of fees/expenses

I think cupe would love for universities to give ALL revenue to its members.

[lonelysock]

I think a lot of people are forgetting that CUPE isn't just student teachers or TAs. The majority of my professors are included in the CUPE union...

so from my point of view, I mean if you go through all the work to become a professor and teach at a university, i guess it'd be nice to be paid more?

But then again, i realize my program doesn't really represent the majority of the university, so once again, I'm on the fence.

[somewhataddictive]

Wow that really sucks for CUPE 3903...how should they go about fixing it? Oh I know...how about striking for 3 months at the students expense! "Cause we are doing this for you" Go CUPE!!!!! (Don't like your job/how much your getting paid? FIND ANOTHER ONE.) Don't make us pay for it....we are already paying upwards of $5000 to sit on our asses all day while YOU bitch about your job security...where's our class security?

[CanadaDan7]

Agreed. I work in the recieving end of a community retail store. I get paid slightly under $10 an hour, and since this is the school year, I can only work on saturdays. I can't go full time since the strike might end. That $10/hr is going towards school, but I can't put 50,000 students out of class by telling my retail job boss I'm not gonna work. I'd just get fired. So why does cupe think their jobs are better than my job? We all pay for Uni, we all take on loans. Only cupe gets to strike.

[aspiring6artist]

At a university, a Professor knows more about the subject matter than the student teacher. A professor runs the class, while a student teacher only helps out. This is why a professor SHOULD make more money than a T/A, even though the T/A may do half of the actual labor. The T/A is doing the easy half. They are doing the marking and tutorials. Although it is the same amount of work, it is work that does not require as high a knowledge of the subject matter as the lectures or course outline.

[aspiring6artist]

In the army, a Sargent makes more money than a Private even though the Private does more work than a Sargent. The Sargent will supervise the bridge build, while the Private will actually build the bridge. The Sargent makes more money than the Private because he has a much higher level of training than the Private. Only he can act as Bridge commander. The Private cannot.

[DaChoppersz]

I wonder also? one of the largest Universities in Canada with about 60,000 part-time and full-time students generating lots of money for the univeristy. Its a shame that staff members like T.A's are underpaid.

[canadianbuck77]

Fuck CUPE and the CAW.

[model4cakes]

Is this how a university student communicates? By leaving crude and hateful comments on all the CUPE support videos you can find online? We're all frustrated, but if you're really that concerned for your education, try using it to leave messages that are a little more constructive. It takes a lot of balls for CUPE to do what they're doing.

[wootmajor]

Why? cuz you are part time students who get payed more than full time general labor workers. And they dont work in a heated office having a coffee and a danish. you dont like your job get a real job. i know this might be a shock to most, but thats why u went to school, to get a better job after u graduate!

[RecycledCinema]

No one is making a joke. No is trying to bribe York undergrads. CUPE didn't shut the school down, York did. Your anger needs to be redirected. Haven't you noticed that the school is invisible right now. Do you really think a bunch of grad students have tried to disrupt the whole year--like some evil plan. Take a look at your school, dig deeper than their press releases and you will see the truth.

[45671981]

THERE IS ALMOST NO ONE ON THAT PICKET LINE. THE MAIN GATE PICKETLINE

This is the best you guys can do?

You should be ashamed of yourselves CUPE. Have fun striking against "neoliberalism" or whatever else bullshit reason you're complaining about this week. I will laugh when the province breaks your back

[Irrelevant1234]

"Why is York University paying less than 10% of their revenue to the CUPE 3903 members that do over 50% of the teaching?"

Why are the highest paid TAs in Ontario asking for more money?

[iliketigbits89]

Because Cupe 3903 is made up of Student TAs who are not real instructors and contract faculty who lack the necessary experience or crudentials to work as a full time faculty members or in managment positions... the reason they recieve 10% is the same reason the folks who serve the coffee at Tim Hortons only make a fraction of company revenue despite the fact that they are serving 100% of the coffee...