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From: David Bernans <research@dojo.tao.ca>
Date: Sat May 17, 2003 8:18:10 PM US/Pacific
To: "Adjunct Mailing List" <adj-l@lyris.gc.cuny.edu>
Subject: [adj-l] union solidarity at Concordia
Reply-To: "Adjunct Mailing List" <adj-l@lyris.gc.cuny.edu>

The workers at the Concordia Student Union have just negotiated and submitted their first collective agreement to the Ministry of Labour here in Quebec. There is one clause of the agreement that could be of great use in building solidarity in the ranks of our campus unions. Article 16.12

"Employees cannot be asked to cross a picket-line of workers or students on strike at the university or a business running out of university space. Employees who choose not to cross such a picket-line will be paid for hours they are normally scheduled to work on that day. Nor can employees be asked to do work that in any way negatively affects workers on strike in another workplace."

In other words, if workers or students go on strike on campus we can shut down services run by the student union in solidarity (this includes information services about the health and dental plan, the housing and job bank, club services, and so on). It would be great if more unions could get such a clause in their collective agreement. The more inter-union solidarity the more power we all have to bring about positive change.

dave

 

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