CUPE 3906

WHAT: Postdoctoral Fellow (Unit 3) End-of-Term lunch!

WHO: CUPE 3906 Unit 3 (Postdoctoral Fellow) Members

WHEN: Friday, December 12, 2025, 12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.

WHERE: The Phoenix Restaurant (Old Refectory Building)

Reserve your seat! Please RSVP by December 8th by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/8TQTgsct55TVsiwy8

Meet your Unit 3 colleagues and your union reps! Have some fun! Enjoy a free lunch!

Questions? Please contact Bita, our Lead Steward Unit 3, at leadsteward_postdocs@cupe3906.org.

Click here to sign & share the petition online now

There are more than 5000 signatures now on this petition to the federal government, demanding that they enforce the Canada Health Act in Ontario where the Ford government is violating it with their private clinics. In the for-profit clinics, elderly patients are routinely charged thousands of dollars when they go in for cataract surgeries. The Canada Health Act bans user fees and extra-billing, but it only works if we demand that the federal government enforces it so that provinces that violate the bans are shamed into coming back into compliance.

How to make sure your signature is counted:
Please click here and fill out the petition (** NOTE: phone numbers must be entered without spaces, brackets, or area codes).

Join the Nigerian Canadian Association, Hamilton for a spectacular night of culture, community, and celebration as we mark 25 incredible years of service, growth, and unity!  This is the most anticipated night of the year — where culture meets class, and community meets celebration!

At our last General Membership Meeting, your local voted to purchase a table at this event and we have a few tickets remaining. If you are interested, please contact international@cupe3906.org

The event takes place December 6th from 5:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. EST at the Grand Olympia in Stoney Creek

https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/2025-ncah-end-of-year-gala

The “Sessional Faculty Notes” are a useful document that provides general information (parking, classroom malfunctions, etc.), academic information (student appeals processes, academic regulations, etc.), and information about student and teaching support services (Avenue to Learn, Instructional Resources, etc).

Click here to access the most recent version of Sessional Faculty Notes..

Your Unit 2 (Sessional) bargaining team was able to secure funding to launch a gender affirmation and reproductive health fund for members to access. Criteria and eligibility, which is similar to the Unit 1 and Unit 3 funds, can be found here: https://cupe3906.org/sessionals-unit-2/u2garhf/ 

Under the fund, Unit 2 Members may now claim up to $800 per academic year (i.e., September 1-August 31) in gender affirming care OR reproductive health care OR some combination of the two (e.g., $400 in gender affirming care and $400 in reproductive health).

Following our November General Membership Meeting, CUPE 3906 and its membership stand firmly opposed to Bill 33.

Bill 33 presents a direct attack on democracy, academic freedom, and the autonomy of Ontario’s public school boards and post-secondary institutions, opening the door to increased privatization and corporatization.

As a union representing over 3,000 university workers, many of whom are also students, CUPE 3906 firmly rejects any and all attacks on education. We call on the Ontario Government to repeal this harmful bill.

Your bargaining team has been hard at work for the past few months since our last update. We have met with the employer at the bargaining table a total of 17 times now, and have been making slow but steady progress on our non-monetary items. We have recently been discussing compensation with the employer and are hopeful that we are on the path to a fair tentative deal. At present, we have three more dates booked for negotiations with the employer: Nov 7, Nov 10, and Nov 19. We are also trying to find more dates to keep negotiations moving.

Most recently, on October 30th, we met with the Employer in conciliation with a Ministry of Labour-appointed conciliation officer. While we don’t believe that we are at a complete standstill in negotiations yet, having met with the conciliation officer means we have now satisfied the legal requirement for us to set a strike/lockout deadline if/when we think that job action is the only way for us to get a fair deal.

While we are hopeful that we can reach a tentative deal without job action, we will need your continued support to get us there. Over the next few months we will be holding events and drop-ins so that we can talk about the union, keep you informed on our bargaining progress, and hear from you about what matters most. Please follow CUPE Local 3906 on Instagram and stay tuned for future opportunities to meet the team and get involved!

Share the Petition

Last year, we successfully presented the employer with a paper petition signed by almost every single Unit 4 employee, demanding a fair contract. Now we’re extending the call to action to residence stakeholders: students, staff, parents, alumni, and community members.

Please encourage everyone you know to sign the online petition for a fair deal. Send it to your students, your friends, heck – you can even send it to your profs. It only takes 30 seconds to sign.

Share the petition at this link: https://forms.gle/Dc8wUzcoXUe3rdCfA

Together we can achieve the fairness we deserve.

In solidarity,
Your CUPE 3906 Unit 4 Bargaining Team
Caleb, Elissa, Greg, Simran, Annie, and Anna

Our next General Membership Meeting, or GMM, will be held on Wednesday, November 19th at 3 p.m. via Zoom. A link will be sent to your McMaster email address in the coming days. The full agenda is TBA, but there will be an election for one (1) position on the bylaws committee. All further details will be posted on www.cupe3906.org/gmm-materials when they are available.