Vote on 1% levy for CUPE 3903 members happening today
If any CUPE 3903 members can make it today, 1 pm in Atkinson 109. Hopefully the levy vote happens early per the agenda.
https://3903.cupe.ca/2019/01/04/january-gmm-tentative-agenda-january-8-2019/
They posted a link about why they need the levy.
Posted Jan 8, 2019, 3:25 PM UTC
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So CUPE 3903 exhausts their funds, is broke, and wants their members to bail them out with more of their money? Their leadership doesn’t know what they’re doing if it’s succumbed to this lol If I was a York U TA or contract faculty, I’d want to keep what little money I make and not give it to this union that won’t use my union fees well. Hell, they still managed to blame York U for their own fiscal mismanagement. Wow.
There was already a vote on levies. Yes it was a unit specific vote which violates CUPE National's rules. Even if you took all the votes into account it was still a no.
Hoping the Unit 2s who mobilized last time can make it out in full force.
Strike funds are completely separate from the regular operation budget, which is what this levy is for. Also, executive spending is a tiny portion of the total budget. Most of this deals with stuff that was voted into the budget passed by the membership last year. But hey, it's easier to blame the radical socialist executive than to actually understand the issues.
Dude the link says right there that this 1% is to deal with strike grievances, and CUPE’s legal fees. They literally blame York for putting CUPE in this situation.
And grievances are not part of the strike budget, which is what was exhausted during the strike. The people who file the most grievances (and hence benefit most from those funds) are the same hign seniority unit 2 members who hate CUPE as much as anyone on this subreddit.