CUPE Local 3906 will be holding our first General Membership Meeting, or GMM, of the academic year on Monday, October 6th, at 5:00 in Life Sciences Building, room B130-E. Free pizza and drinks will be served at 5:00, and the meeting will get under way at 5:30. The GMM is the highest decision making body of the union, and is … Read More
Coalition of Graduate Employees Union
One of our stewards recently attended the 2014 Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) conference. The CGEU (link to facebook page) brings together graduate student unions across North America to discuss common issues of concern and share strategies and best-practice when dealing with university administrators. The conference attendees amended and adopted a Constitution (CGEU Constitution 2014-08-02) for their member unions, … Read More
CUPE 3906 Supports Saving Door to Door Mail Delivery
This past Friday, a few of our executive members attended a Save Door to Door Mail Delivery rally in Toronto. Here is a picture of our two Vice Presidents (Caroline and Evan) with CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. More information about why it is important to Save Canada Post can be found here.
2014 Mike Skinner Activist Award Winner- Brock Dubbels
CUPE Local 3906 is proud to announce the winner of our 2014 Mike Skinner Activist Award: Dr. Brock Dubbels. Brock is a post-doctoral fellow (Unit 3 member) working in the Department of Computing and Software. Brock won the award for his role in launching Hamilton’s first ever “CoderDojo”. CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs and … Read More