Negotiations stall between Trent and Teaching Assistant union
Photo by Jenny Fisher. After five days of bargaining in November and December, CUPE Local 3908 Unit 2 and Trent University are going to conciliation. Though some progress was made, …
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Research Assistants at Trent seeking to unionize with CUPE
The concerns and predicaments of Research Assistants (RA) at Trent will be a thing of the past with guaranteed collective benefits, as they look to become unionized. The Trent University …
CUPE and Trent reach tentative agreement
After seven months of bargaining, CUPE 3908 and Trent University have reached a tentative settlement on a collective agreement for contract faculty. The agreement was negotiated on Monday, March 24, …
Part-Time Faculty Strike Looming
[Update: CUPE 3908 and Trent have reached a tentative agreement.] Contract faculty at Trent, also referred to as ‘sessional,’ ‘adjunct,’ or part-time faculty, have been working without a contract since …
CUPE: Giving Workers a Presence in Campus Politics
Until recently, one of the best kept secrets of the university world was that the people who do most of the teaching are actually not professors in the strict sense, …