CUPE 3908 includes more than 600 workers who work as contract faculty, part-time course instructors, workshop leaders, and markers. Contract faculty already earn less than half the average hourly rate of their similarly qualified full-time colleagues and the gap has widened over the past decade. Because of the difficulties in organizing this part-time, insecure labour force, universities have been able … Read More
Mac’s Priorities Need to be Changed
An opinion piece from The Silhouette by Blake McCall There is something rotten at McMaster University. For those of you who are not counting I think it is important to take note of what has been happing for the last 18 months on this campus. September 2009: CAW local 555 representing administrators all across campus nearly go on strike as … Read More