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 E-MAILS OF SUPPORT NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR FEDERATION OF LABOUR PRESS RELEASE November 1st, 2000 For immediate release..... PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS THROW SUPPORT BEHIND STRIKING MUNFA MEMBERS Public Sector Unions in the province are calling on Memorial University to bargain in good faith with striking MUNFA members. At a meeting called by te Federation of Labour this morning representatives of CUPE, NAPE, AAHP, NLNU and NLTA offered their unqualified support for the striking MUNFA members. These unions issue the following joint statement: "Public Sector Unions believe that this strike typifies the deterioration that has occurred in the public sector collective bargaining process int this province over the past decade." "The members of MUNFA are struggling to achieve a collective agreement which fairly compensates their members. The university administration should concentrate their efforts on reaching a collective agreement and stop their misguided attempts at waging a public relations war with MUNFA." For further information contact:
Fred Andrews, NLTA 726-3223
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:11:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andrea Earle First of all, I have to say that I support your decision to strike 100%. I am an Education student who is outraged that the university just decided to move mid-term break up a couple of weeks. I have a family vacation planned for the week of Nov. 13 and cannot change all the reservations of airfare, hotels, car rental, etc. By giving us the next three days to move our break, the university has messed up. How am I supposed to hop on a plane with 3 of my family members a week and a half early? Let alone try and get vacation time alloted for the 4 of us. I called the office of the registrar and was told that this decision was made in the best interest of the students. This is insane! By making this decision, I will be forced to miss several classes which may cause problems on assignments, tests, and exams. I really feel that the university has made the students "pawns" between the faculty association and MUN. They are trying to get the students upset with you people, but I am more upset that MUN can just change everything to fit their needs. It is absolutely ridiculous. Keep up the fight!! Best of Luck, Andrea Earle
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:31:07 -0330 Subject: morale From: Mary.Pippy@mi.mun.ca TO: munfa@nfld.net
Dear MUNFA members,
Mary Pippy, Faculty Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:02:11 -0330 (NST) From: William Barker Good luck with the strike. I believe the offer is divisive and I am surprised at the administration. I hope you can pull the members together. I have been getting a lot of mail from Ray Gosine, Mark Joyal, et al. I'll be following events on the web. Thanks for putting up the site. <>Bill Barker ....................................................................... wbarker@morgan.ucs.mun.ca / William Barker, English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Nfld, Canada A1C 5S7 / Tel: 709 737 8055
X-Originating-IP: [192.197.142.22]
From: "Jean Sauvageau"
Hi there MUNFA folks,
Just a quick word to let you know that the whole Faculty Association of the
University of Saint Thomas (FAUST) is behind you and supports you in your
actions to get a fair settlement.
Unfortunately, previous commitments prevent me from joining you for the 1st
wave of flying pickets but I hope, if need be, to be part of the 2nd wave
coming your way.
Sincerely and in solidarity,
Jean Sauvageau
CAUT Defence Fund trustee for FAUST
Fredericton, NB
To Strikers,
Although I am no longer living in NF, I am a former MUN student. I
understand your fight and agree with your issues. Here's hoping for a short
strike before this years students suffer.
Kevin Strowbridge
ASI Engineering Group
Structural Department
(334) 690 - 7809
I was outraged this morning to hear that the University Administration had
changed the time of the 'mid-term' break for the good of the
students. Once again the University Administration ignores the students to
suit their own needs. How long had Dr. Meisen had this plan up his
sleeve? Why didn't he give the students a chance to prepare for such
a change? Once again the Administration demonstrates its lack of concern
for the people wo are most important to the University, THE STUDENTS !!
While I believe that both MUNFA and the Administration are using and
abusing the students throughout this whole ordeal I understand and support
the reasons for which the professors and librarians are striking. Good
luck with your fight.
Sean Tobin
Student - Memorial University of Newfoundland
Hi Everybody!
Yes, we're out, and it seems so far to be going well. Morale seems to me
to be good, we've had lots of honking support from the traffic and
demonstrations in support from the students. Publicity has been good: I've
personally had the CBC at my picket station, and the others are all around.
The CBC reporter told me that every one of 75 students she had talked to
was supporting the strike. The weather is mild and drizzly but improving.
The administration has moved study week forward, and that has
inconvenienced the students as much as us: I had one come up to me and give
us his support. He told us he had planned to visit his parents in
California for study week, and was mightily upset. We have now heard that
the University will pay for the airline tickets of any student whose plans
were spoiled!
Our turnout seems to me to be good. Wish us luck! I am using my regular
account on the MUN host, so if you get this, they have not cut off e-mail
and internet access yet.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi MUNFA!
My best wishes for your success. Surely the administration can find better
ways of attracting good faculty than by discriminating against some of
their current faculty. I know some non-Ph.Ds who are fine research
scholars, and some with PhDs who are clearly not.
There is also the vivid memory of the nastiness created by the
discrimination in salary increases in our first agreement. You are so right
to strike for fairness.
Thoughts from retirement on the further West Coast.
cheers, David
David S. Hart, Ph.D. david.hart@ubc.ca
2343 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC,
Canada V6K 1Y4
OR
ECPS, Faculty of Education
2125 Main Mall, UBC
Vancouver, BC,
Canada V6T 1Z4
Chris, thanks for the interesting report on your strike! Jim Turk had informed us this morning of your going out early today. These are heady moments and I'm glad morale seems to be good, now all you have to do is to keep it up whatever the weather! Best of luck in your negociations and may the Force be with you!!! Our executive is meeting next Tuesday and we will be forwarding support. Please extend my salutations and wishes for a speedy and satisfying resolution to Bill Shrank and the rest of the negociating team, to President Noël and members of the executive, and to Bernice Shrank, Tony Chadwick and
all the people of the Job Action Committee.
In solidarity, Greg Allain,
Président, ABPPUM
As I stood in line this morning at the student services office to
meet with one of their travel consultants I was astounded at the number of
students who’s travel plans were affected by this strike. I had purchased a
non-refundable ticket using my air miles plan, as travelling to my hometown
of Labrador City is quite costly. The staff was very helpful and sympathetic
to my case, but they were not able to justify paying my air fare because I
used the air miles points system to go home. This I understand and I again
thank them for their help, BUT for Memorial University to change their
schedule so freely to suit their own needs is appalling.
I was told openly that the Vice-President of the university had released a
statement stating that anyone with travel plans between the period of Nov.
13-15 would not be reprimanded academically and it was their own choice to
miss this time. THIS IS NOT THE POINT. If I am not mistaken I did not read
anywhere in the MUN 2000-2001 Calendar: “Note: Schedule is subject to change
without any given notice.” Perhaps someone from the university could meet
with me to show me the section of the book where I can find this.
To MUNFA, I hope you continue your strike and do not resume classes on
Monday as the university assumes you will. I am aware that this is damaging
to students, but I think it is worse that the university is using us as
puppets in their negotiations. Although, we the students are not part of
the negotiations on paper, we are a part.
To MUN, I hope you see the error you have made. To backstab the students
who are in part funding this institution has pushed me to reevaluate the
practices of this university as I’m sure it has other students. I for one
will consider other options for post-secondary next fall. This is not to
say that I will not attend MUN as the faculty is nothing less than first
class here. As for the university itself, I pray that you fully look into
the repercussions of your actions before making flash decisions such as this
and settle with Faculty here before they seek employment elsewhere.
Stephen Kelly
X-Sender: rmackinn@sparc.uccb.ns.ca (Unverified)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:01:38 -0400
To: munfa@nfld.net
From: Richard MacKinnon
To MUNFA members:
Good luck in your strike. At UCCB we were on strike last winter for five
weeks; I know that it's not a lot fun on a picket line a cold, miserable
day. We won a lot of concessions by staying out until we obtained most of
what we were looking for. I have my Ph.D.from MUN in Folkore Studies and
have been closely watching what's happening there. We are thinking of you
all from another rock in the sea!
Stand the Gaff!
Cheers,
Richard MacKinnon
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:12:48 -0330
From: Karen Brown
I want all of you to know I am appalled by administrations actions which
they consider to be in "the best interests of the students." They made
the decision to move mid-term break long before Tuesday morning yet did
not inform student leaders of this until many of us heard it on the news
that morning. The chaos created by admin.'s decision is disgraceful and
admin.'s attempt to split MUNFA'a members by offering different salaries
to professors with different "pieces of paper" that supposedly make the
professors better able to teach just because they have a Ph.D. is
preposterous! Some of my BEST professors do not have Ph.D's and do a
damn fine job in and out of the class room. Axiel Mieson, you should be
ashamed of yourself for preaching you are acting in the best interests
of students, for you clearly are not. If you continue to treat the
professors and students of this university as pawns against one another
your intentions to attract qualified professors and to increase student
enrollment will become a secondary concern because you will be left
trying to solve the problem of holding on to the ones you have now!!!
I hope all of you do not give in to pressures to accept offers that
you know are less than what you deserve. Students are on your side no
matter how long it takes admin. to do what is right.
In solidarity
Karen
Hello Sisters and Brothers,
Please know that you are in my thoughts and those of all your
compatriots throughout the Local Associations of the CAUT. We are
30,000 strong and the full weight of the CAUT is with you. This you
know!
Your issues are crucial to us all. I know that you are
negotiating with every tool at your disposal. From the Latin
negotiatus ... nego ... deny and stand firm!
You have my deepest respect and admiration ... God's speed!
... Tom Booth, President,
To our Brothers and Sisters at MUN --
We at UCCB wish you all the best. It is difficult to walk out on our
students as we know. But it is sometimes the only course of action left
that will bring the administration to its senses and that will make MUN a
better place for your students and yourselves. Sadly, your President and
Board seem not to understand why you have taken the strong stand you have.
It says a great deal about the values that dominate the thinking of the
corporate administaors and boards across the PSE sector.
We at UCCB know this only too well. We also know that the anticipation of
the strike is in many ways worse than the strike.
Your cause is just, and you will win because you are right.
We wish you all the best. Hang tough. It's worth it.
In solidarity
Stand the gaff
Michael Manson, President
UCCB Faculty Association
Box 5300
Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6L2
mmanson@uccb.ns.ca
(902) 563-1244
FAX (902) 562-0119
"stand the gaff"
Dear MUN faculty;
Just a note to express some solidarity in your strike from FAUSTers
here at St. Thomas University. Good luck and give 'em hell! We have common
enemies in all employers. I hope the weather is good on the picket lines,
and a special hello to the people in Sociology, Anthropology and Political
Science. Michael
Dr. Michael Clow
Associate Professor
Dept. of Sociology
St. Thomas University
Fredericton, N.B.
E3B 5G3 Canada
(P) 506-452-0457
(Fax) 506-450-9615
Hi all,
As a sometimes part-time instructor I am not a MUNFA member but I am covered
by the collective agreement. As such, I would like to say that I support
your action 100% and appreciate your efforts to secure better pay for
instructors like myself.
Within the Faculty of Business there has been increased usage of instructors
like myself and I find this very disconcerting. Two years ago I was employed
as a lecturerer by the faculty of business. At that time the Dean claimed to
have a policy of only employing non-doctorate faculty for 2 years at which
point they were expected to "leave to get a PHD". During the time I was with
the faculty I taught alongside faculty that made a tremendous amount more
than myself and it was a bummer!! After 2 years my contract was not renewed
( I ONLY have a Masters degree) and off I went. Now they are more than happy
to employ me as a per-course sessional lecturer or as a teaching assistant
for web-based courses. Obviously such arrangements are very cost-effective
for the university but far from fair. Specifically, I am trying to find out
just how many people like me there are out there. Anecdotal evidence
suggests there are quite a few but I would like to find out "officially"
just how many courses (individual CRNs) are being taught by part
time/sessional/non-MUNFA instructors.
In the meantime, am I allowed to join your picket line?
thanks,
john pippy
Dear Colleagues:
Please accept my support in your ongoing struggle to achieve a
Collective Agreement that respects the worth of all members of your
Bargaining Unit, despite the apparent opposition of your Employer to
this fundamental principle. As you know, you have the full support of
CAUT and faculty associations across the country in your ongoing
efforts to obtain a new Collective Agreement. If there is anything I
can do to assist you in your struggle, please feel free to call upon
me.
All the best,
Hi there!
I am a fifth year MUN student in my last semester and as much as this strike
may disrupt the possibility of me graduating in time, I send you all my
support. I hope all the faculty stands strong and don't settle for anything
less than you deserve. There is strength in numbers and there are a lot of
numbers behind you, including many students. I wish you all luck and hope
this rain goes away and we see some sun. Don't let the administration
belittle what you are trying to do, show them who's boss!
Sincerely,
Kim Keats- Memorial University Student
Greetings at strike headquarters! Just to let you know that I am offering you moral support, and if the chance comes, I'll join one of the flying pickets. I sent the following letter to the President and the Chair of the Board of regents.
Rick
Richard McGaw, Department of Economics
Dear President Meisen:
I am dismayed to learn that the management at Memorial has chosen to force the Faculty and Librarians to go on strike. As I am sure you know, academics do not take the decision to go on strike lightly, and it is only when pushed beyond a reasonable level that they will decide to take that step. I have been involved in faculty affairs at the national level for the past fifteen years and I have had a considerable association with the MUNFA. I have always been impressed by their professionalism, and I know that they would not choose a strike if they were approached reasonably at the table.
To force a strike is a particularly damaging act. These are difficult times to recruit academic staff and a strike hurts the reputation of the employer when most universities settle their agreements without a strike. Also, other universities, mine included, are keen to recruit students. Those universities that can boast of labour peace will gain an edge on Memorial. For these reasons, and many others I urge you to send your negotiating team back to the table with proposals that will bring an end to the strike.
Yours sincerely,
Richard McGaw
Hello and congratulations on your decision to strike!
I have long understood that MUN professors were not well-served by the
university; the administration's offers to date serve only to confirm that
opinion in the minds of observers. When will Newfoundland institutions get
over the unfair notion that you deserve to be paid less (or to pay more, or
to owe more, as the case may be) because you live in Newfoundland?!? You've
done the right thing to strike for equitable treatment of faculty members.
While I can't be in St. John's or Corner Brook to help you with your
efforts, please be assured that I'm fully behind you. As a former student
leader on the St. John's campus, I'm proud to acknowledge my solidarity with
you via this forum. Students in St. John's seem to be supportive--we at the
University to Toronto are with you, too!! We'll pray for good strike
weather--from what I can see from your online photos, you could use some
divine meteorological intervention!
Leigh Borden
1 November 2000
Professor Noel Roy
Dear Professor Roy:
On behalf of the Trent University Faculty Association, I am writing to offer our
help and support with respect to the issues that led to your taking strike action.
We will be sending you a financial contribution as soon as possible. Enclosed are
copies of letters expressing our concern to members of the administration at
Memorial.
Although we are unable to picket with you this Friday, we hope to have someone for
the next trip. Below we are forwarding the E-mail we sent to Memorial University's
president, copied to the Chair of the Board of Regents.
Our best wishes for a speedy and successful conclusion. Please let us know if there
is anything further we can do.
Sincerely,
TUFA wrote:
> November 1, 2000
>
> Dr. Axel Meisen
> President, Memorial University
> president@mun.ca
>
> Dear Dr. Meisen:
>
> The Trent University Faculty Association was distressed to learn that a
> negotiated settlement between the Memorial Faculty Association and University
> administrators has not been reached and that the faculty has found it necessary
> to resort to strike action. We are concerned about our colleagues at Memorial
> and fully support them in their strike position.
>
> Despite experience to the contrary, it always comes as a surprise to me when a
> strike becomes necessary for university faculty to achieve reasonable working
> conditions and compensation. In institutions that are supposed to be centres of
> intellectual endeavour, that are supposed to be based on reasoned debate, and in
> which ethical behaviour is part of the curriculum, the administration should not
> force its faculty to take such a drastic step.
>
> Paying fair salaries is not fiscal madness. Indeed, not only is it just, it can
> make fiscal sense. Certainly higher salaries entail added expense. Amicable
> negotiations aimed at reasonable attempts to establish fairness can produce
> benefits to balance that expense. As we are all aware, lengthy negotiations in
> an atmosphere of confrontation become very expensive in terms of money, morale
> and reputation. Once this matter is resolved, I am sure it would be easier to
> reach an agreement on the outstanding issues of Pension reform, faculty renewal,
> and benefits.
>
> It is much better to pay fair faculty salaries than it is to pay expensive legal
> bills. It is much better to have an environment of cooperation in which all
> members of the institution work together for mutual benefit. It is much better
> as well to have an environment of high morale in which members of the community
> spend their time on productive pursuits instead of struggling for justice.
>
> We know that your faculty want to settle. You should too. I urge you most
> strongly to negotiate seriously, to negotiate now and to settle with your
> faculty.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> c.c. Mr. Ed Roberts, Chair, Board of Regents, c/o jconnors@pphm.com
The struggle to defend of the quality of public education in
Newfoundland is a vital task for all union members. Keep your eye on the
sparrow!
Robert C.H. Sweeny
Reply-To: "Justin Partyka"
Dear Dr. Meisen,
Just to inform you that your move to change mid-term break to this week is
the funniest thing I have heard for a while.
When three Graduate students out of a class of five have already bought
plane tickets to visit family and friends in Ontario and the professor is
travelling to England -- I for one will not be attending class.
All this will do is create a greater anxiety amongst students
What's next --- Christmas break in November?
Perhaps you should deal with the MUNFA issue at hand instead of trying to
buy yourself more time and screwing up the student's education even more in
the process.
One of the very angered students at MUN
Justin Partyka
Justin Partyka
Department of Folklore
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NF, A1B 3X8, Canada.
s99jp@mun.ca
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:10:44 -0600
From: June Madeley
Greetings from McMaster Sessional Lecturers:
As a sessional lecturer at two Ontario Universities and a union
activist, I am outraged to hear that you have to strike for fair
increases for sessional instructors. It is outrageous that you have seen
no increases for these employees in 10 years.
I will be brining your situation up at our next executive meeting.
Is there particular suppport you are looking for? We were on strike last
winter (with our TA unit) so financial support is problematic. Who
should we be writing to in order to express our outrage and to urge the
University to stop its intransigence?
In Solidarity,
June Madeley
Chief Steward, Unit 2 (Sessional Lecturers)
McMaster University, CUPE Local 3906
From: Paul Gingrich
To Munfa,
Please convey the message below to your members.
At the time of our Executive meeting last Monday, we were
unsure whether or not you would be going on strike.
I was appalled to hear that the salary scale at Memorial has
not been improved since 1989. I was also very encouraged to
note that you are holding out for better salaries for
part-timers and those without doctorates. URFA represents
large number of part-timers here at Regina and I am
encouraged to see other associations attempting to improve
working conditions and salaries for instructors who are not
full time faculty members.
We wish you the best in your endeavours and hope that you
are soon able to negotiate a good settlement.
Paul Gingrich
To All Members of MUNFA:
The University of Regina Faculty Association passed the
following motion at its meeting of October 30:
"that URFA supports the Memorial University Faculty
Association in their attempt to obtain a negotiated
settlement of a collective agreement. As URFA members we
express our solidarity with MUNFA members in the actions
they take to achieve a settlement."
We wish you all the best in your efforts to reach a
settlement.
Sincerely,
Paul Gingrich, Chair
University of Regina Faculty Association
Wilfrid Laurier Faculty Association sends its best wishes and its
solidarity to all its Memorial colleagues walking the picket line. We
have put in place our constitutional processes for making a donation and
that also will be on the way shortly to keep your spirits up. We are only
sorry that your totally recalcitrant Administration has once
again shown itself incapable of fairly coming to a Collective Agreement.
A letter is going to them also to tell them that.
Keep strong. Our thoughts are with you.
Joyce Lorimer
Greetings all!
As a 'faculty brat', former student, and a lecturer without
PhD (yet) I want to send along my best wishes and express
my solidarity.
All of us ex-students know how much we (and MUN as a whole)
have benefitted from Profs without PhD's and sessional
lecturers. Thanks for fighting for them and for us.
I remember many days in my childhood when it seemed like
MUNFA would end up on the picket-line. I'm sorry it has
come to this now -- but I almost wish I was there with you.
The picket line and headquarters photos are great --
although the weather looks pretty typical!
My name is Wanda-lee Murphy and I have recently graduated from the
Bachelor of Music program. I would like to say that I have had wonderful
teachers both in and outside the music faculty throughout my university
experience. Most of the professors I have known go above and beyond
their call of duty and that kind of dedication I feel should be well
compensated for. For the university to ignore the efforts of the people
who work so diligently for them is utterly disgusting and shallow. So
to all of you professors who are fighting for what should be yours
without resistance, I support you one hundred percent.
Keep on fighting and good luck,
Wanda-lee Murphy
November 6, 2000
As a Memorial alumni who was educated by an outstanding group
of professors -with and without PhDs- , I write to express my deep
chagrin that the Administration of Memorial University continues to be
so short-sighted in its negotiations with the Faculty Association,
especially concerning a proposed salary offer that would see a
differential salary scale established between professors with doctoral
qualifications and those without. It is a divisive tactic that I can
only imagine is designed to save someone a few dollars at an enormous
expense of another order. For what price can one put on the years -
indeed decades- of great teaching, research and university service
provided by all faculty? It is a question that, unfortunately, the
members of MUNFA have been obliged to ask of themselves and their
administration, as they see their colleagues at sister institutions
earning more for similar work, while they continue to fall behind.
Surely the gateposts of tenure and promotion are there at your
insititution, as they are at most other North American universities,
to ensure that faculty are performing service, research and teaching
of acceptable quality and quantity. The appropriate moment to insist
on the qualifications of faculty surely is when a professor or
librarian is applying for promotion, or applying for a job, and not
when many of them are finishing their careers.
I cannot in good conscience continue to contribute financially
to MUN's annual fund-raising campaigns when I know these monies fall
into the hands of cowardly tacticians with so little foresight as to
pit one group of faculty against another. For those adminstrators
whose concerns are uniquely calculated in dollars, please take a few
moments to envisage the cost these misguided proposals (and the
current strike ) will have on students, and the institution as a
whole.
As a graduate of Memorial, mentored by a variety of faculty
but in particular by an outstanding professor with a M.A., as a
teacher and a researcher with a recent PhD who knows first hand just
how difficult it will be to retain ambitious scholars in the coming
years, I can tell you that my sympathies lie squarely with MUNFA. The
future of Memorial University is being played out at this moment. I
may only hope that this insidious, divisive threat, coming from an
Administration posing as the voice and vision of Memorial University,
will serve its opposite purpose: to weld together the will of those
faculty who make Memorial one of Canada's great, often untold
successes.
Dr. Mark D. Lee
Quality education for students is predicated on good working conditions
for faculty. We are encouraged that so many of you are willing to strike
to ensure the continued quality of education offered at MUN.
With best wishes,
Dear MUNFA Members,
I walked around campus today observing all the picket lines and I've
just got to say that I've never been prouder of a bunch of people in
my life. You guys have been out there for more than a week now in the
pouring rain, and still show no signs of backing down. It seems to me
that the striking MUNFA members are made from stronger stuff than
most.
I'm a student here at MUN, and I won't lie to you, this strike is a
major inconveince to me, but I'll survive. Your major concern right
now should be the welfare of your union and your families.
Some people have voiced dissatisfaction with the idea that 75% union
is being offered a 20% raise yet MUNFA chose to walk out. No such
idea has ever ocurred to me. It says something about a union and its
members when its not willing to leave anybody behind. It says
something about a person who is willing to walk away from his/her job
to help the people who need helping.
You guys have my support, and needless to say you are in my prayers.
If you ever need the support of a student or just a word of
encouragement don't hesitate to ask. Finally, its really nice to know
that when classes do resume, and hopefully that will be soon, there
will be men and women at the heads of those classes that I can respect
and admire.
Sincerely, I am a fifth year social work student who incidentally is scheduled to
complete my program at Christmas. That is right I will be able to look
and hopeful find work as a Social Worker at the end of this semester
(December)... that is if we have a semester. So needless to say I have,
like the other 16000 students, a personal interest in this strike. That
being said I commend your strike action. A strike is a strike is a
strike and they are never something people look forward to... and to
strike for 'equity among your members' is very admirable indeed. Hats
off to you all!
I would like to comment on the latest action of our 'esteemed
administration'... the television advertisements. I can't image how
much they cost "US"! Not to mention the time and effort put into
creating them. Perhaps Honorable Meisen you could refocus your
attention to the table and then there would not be the need to spend my
money on commercials. Can we please get back to work! In solidarity...
Catherine Shortall
I am a Grenfell College ASM, currently on leave in Toronto. I greatly appreciate the constantly updated information about the strike on your website.
The MUNFA Executive and the MUNFA Negotiating Team are doing a wonderful job, and I fully support them.
In Solidarity, Dennis Bartels
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