Workers at Carleton University go on strike
Posted Mar 27, 2023 01:15:30 PM.
Education workers at Carleton University are on strike Monday after the union and university failed to reach an agreement by the midnight deadline.
CUPE Local 4600 represents about 3,000 teaching assistants and contract instructors at the graduate and undergraduate level.
They’ve asked for increased wages in line with cost of living raises, increased supports for teaching assistants and control over their own intellectual property.
“It could be a syllabus, it could be actual research material,” said Hayley Rose Malouin, a member of CUPE local 4600 and a PhD student, who adds that if tenured faculty go somewhere else, they own that research. “However, with a contract instructor, they are being denied that basic right of scholarship because Carleton University sees them merely as workers.”
Education workers at Carleton University are on strike Monday after the union and university failed to reach an agreement by the midnight deadline.
CUPE Local 4600 represents about 3,000 teaching assistants and contract instructors at the graduate and undergraduate level.
They’ve asked for increased wages in line with cost of living raises, increased supports for teaching assistants and control over their own intellectual property.
“It could be a syllabus, it could be actual research material,” said Hayley Rose Malouin, a member of CUPE local 4600 and a PhD student, who adds that if tenured faculty go somewhere else, they own that research. “However, with a contract instructor, they are being denied that basic right of scholarship because Carleton University sees them merely as workers.”
