We're Back and We're Not Going Anywhere - AGSEM Newsletter September 2024
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- Jul 30
- 1 min
AGSEM Executive Committee Stands In Solidarity with Students in Bangledesh
In light of the recent events in Bangladesh, the AGSEM Executive Committee condemns the extreme police brutality.
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Cops Off Our Campus: A Response to the Police Brutality of June 6, 2024
We call for the administration to acknowledge that the events of June 6 2024 were a demonstration of police brutality, not expertise.
- May 1
- 1 min
AGSEM Stands in Solidarity with AMPL on Strike
The Association of McGill Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) wants to express its deepest words of solidarity with the...
- Apr 17
- 8 min
Bargaining Newsletter #17: A Tentative Agreement is reached! Will we accept it? You decide!
Monday 15 April 2024 Content warning: this newsletter describes AGSEM’s negotiations with McGill around policies on harassment,...
- Apr 7
- 4 min
AGSEM's update on negotiations, strike, and TA working conditions with regard to the mass email sent by McGill HR on April 5, 2024
April 7, 2024 Negotiations McGill’s latest email is their first public statement on negotiations. We have been publishing detailed...
- Apr 3
- 8 min
Bargaining Newsletter #16: A deal is within reach—will McGill do the work to reach an agreement?
Tuesday 2 April, 2024 Content warning: this newsletter describes AGSEM’s negotiations with McGill around policies on harassment,...
- Apr 3
- 1 min
McGill Refuses to unlock McGill Emails
McGill refuses to restore systems access, including employee emails, to TAs until the strike is over.
- Mar 25
- 3 min
Letter to the employer: Agreement regarding s. 109.1 ss. c of the Labour Code
Recently, the McGill administration has suggested that TAs who also hold other forms of employment on campus will be suspended or terminated
- Mar 24
- 2 min
TA work belongs to TAs
AGSEM calls on McGill to stop asserting their dubious and self-serving legal interpretations as fact and instead focus on coming to the...
- Mar 22
- 2 min
CEASE AND DESIST regarding the employer's directives to course supervisors
Two documents produced by the Employer have been shared with us and raise serious concerns.
- Mar 20
- 4 min
Bargaining Newsletter #15: McGill has the power to avert a strike—will they?
Tuesday 19 March, 2024 It has been two weeks since AGSEM and McGill last met for negotiations—and what an eventful two weeks it has been!...
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Bargaining Newsletter #14: Conciliation has begun with a strike vote less than a week away
A new chapter in bargaining with a strike vote a week away Tuesday, March 5, 2024 RSVP for the TA strike vote assembly! It’s been a busy...
- Mar 2
- 5 min
Bargaining Newsletter #13: McGill’s latest offer well below inflation and demands of TAs
McGill’s latest counterproposal leaves TAs no closer to a deal Monday February 26, 2024 On Monday, February 26th, AGSEM and McGill met...
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Bargaining Newsletter #12: With a strike vote weeks away, TAs are still waiting for a serious offer from McGill
AGSEM makes a counter offer. What will McGill’s next offer be? Tuesday February 20, 2024 On Tuesday, February 20th, AGSEM and McGill met...
- Feb 22
- 2 min
McGill Communities Council: Open Letter in Solidarity with Floor Fellows
On Thursday, February 15, 2024, AMUSE was informed of McGill’s decision via McGill Human Resources to end the Floor Fellows program.
- Feb 20
- 6 min
Bargaining Newsletter #11: McGill starts to budge on wages, but remains inflexible on healthcare and indexation
AGSEM and McGill have recently met twice for negotiations of a new Collective Agreement for TAs: on February 9th, and February 13th.
- Feb 5
- 4 min
Bargaining Newsletter #10: A pay cut is NOT a serious offer
On Friday February 2nd, 2024, McGill gave us their wage offer...which is a pay cut.
- Feb 2
- 6 min
Teaching Assistants Push to Hold Strike Mandate Vote
Teaching Assistants voted unanimously to approve a motion that mandates AGSEM to increase pressure tactics, including a strike vote.
- Jan 21
- 4 min
Bargaining Newsletter #9: When will McGill get serious about negotiations?
It’s a new year, a new semester, and we are back at the bargaining table, fighting for a new contract for McGill TAs!
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