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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

The email sent by the employer is a dishonest conflation of the multiple protests and picketing on campus today. No AGSEM member was arrested today. The police did not want to charge the student who was arrested, but McGill wanted to press charges for vandalism.

Dennis Wendt, PhD

@dennis_wendt

1 month

Of course illegal or unsafe actions from strikers should not be tolerated, but stop pretending you're a moral authority, @mcgillu admin. You've knowingly spouted lies about the law and cruelly stripped TAs from other univ jobs. You all should be ashamed, as you clutch your $350K+

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

17 days

McGill students and faculty deserve a Provost who knows the difference between reply all and forward & that tweet likes are public. Someone who can apologize other than through an Instagram comment. Someone without such contempt for our community.

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@agsem_aeedem

1 month

The shame of this employer knows no bounds. @mcgillu , this is about you. Since the start of the TA strike, AGSEM has tried to negotiate access to @ mcgill .ca employee emails with McGill Human Resources. 1/8

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@agsem_aeedem

1 month

🤔🤔🤔🤔

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

When talking TA wages: "the University considers that the appropriate labour market comparator is Québec, where the University is situated." When talking upper admin wages:

AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@dennis_wendt @mcgillu Here's a handy comparison! It's 2019 numbers—but they've given themselves a 26% raise over the life of our contract (when we got 12.6%), and they've created more assistant deans and upper admins since (of course).

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 months

Happy first day of strike! McGill TAs are already locked out of Workday and can't access their tax forms. It's 1am and we. want. to. file. our. taxes.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

Fabrice Labeau, Deputy Provost Office, Student Life and Learning requesting managers to volunteer to be untrained invigilators to meet legal requirements to provide accommodations because they fired all striking TAs from their other positions on campus 💀 @mcgillu

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

29 days

Come dance with us! We're in front of Roddick Gates! HR has contacted us 4 times already about the rave (a good use of time and resources)—but we're in full respect of the conditions placed on strike activities. McGill admin might be fun sponges, but they can't stop the beat!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

22 days

Thank you for your solidarity. It was an incredibly difficult decision. Even though the agreement passed, it was clear among members that the offer from McGill was not good enough. The fight is not over. ✊

Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli, Prof.

@munizfraticelli

22 days

My students, my teaching assistants, my future colleagues at @agsem_aeedem are making a difficult decision today. I know they will approach it with the same seriousness and principle that they bring to their scholarly work. I wish them courage and offer them solidarity.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

17 days

AGSEM's first contract in 1998 took 1400 days to negotiate--almost 5 years! It took going on strike in 1996 (the first legal TA strike in QC) to get a monetary offer. McGill is the problem.

AMPE

@AMPE_AMPE

17 days

When @mcgillu provost says, "Our data show that reaching a first-ever collective agreement takes an average of nearly three years at McGill; renewal of a collective agreement takes an average of two and a half years." Key words: "AT MCGILL." Exactly! You're the problem!!!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

This is unconscionable @mcgillu . We want to go back to work--why aren't you putting negotiation dates on the calendar? We are not that far apart and our major outstanding demand is related to TA workload and academic support for our profs and students.

William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸

@MarxinHell

1 month

Hasana Sharp, my colleague and partner, has calculated the additional hours of work @mcgillu is trying to impose on her in lieu of settling the @agsem_aeedem strike: 225 hours by May 7 — 4 56 hour weeks — on top of her existing workload. Her letter:

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

11 days

Exactly how they responded to the first week of the TA strike, which culminated in the arrest of a student involved in pro-Palestine activism at our picket for minor vandalism that was cleaned immediately. The police did not want to arrest them, McGill did.

rumaan

@shnekl

11 days

The mcgill emails are so telling. The vibes at the encampment have been calm and peaceful since it started on saturday. I have a feeling that the increasing intensity of the emails (in contrast to the real situation) is an attempt to manufacture justification re calling the cops.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Thanks to @tutamAW for translating this! "The strike dog Orvokki (eng. Pansy, as in the flower) with Teemu Kurki and Harri Auvinen guarding the picket line at the John Deere factory in Joensuu." Solidarity from Canada to Finland, Orvokki! ✊ 🐕

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@agsem_aeedem

1 month

McGill: so exceptional the labour code does not apply.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@dennis_wendt @mcgillu Here's a handy comparison! It's 2019 numbers—but they've given themselves a 26% raise over the life of our contract (when we got 12.6%), and they've created more assistant deans and upper admins since (of course).

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 months

McGill is ignoring ss. g and forcing profs to scab, but is aggressively enforcing ss. c and has fired all active TAs from their current positions as RAs, non-academic casuals, and course lecturers.

is it sp-Rine-g yet? 🌱

@rinewithoutacat

2 months

Again: Doing this in QUÉBEC is wild! Québec has incredibly strong anti-scab legislation (see below), and McGill is claiming profs are management (so they can’t unionize), which…*looks around at unionizing efforts at McGill and unionized profs elsewhere.*

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@AMPL_AMPD @TheLawofWork @eidlin @mcgillu McGill is creating a narrative to justify their increased use of force against striking TAs. But there were multiple unrelated protests and actions every day this week. The student who was arrested was involved with one of these other movements but is in solidarity with ours.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

Yes, endless legal fees is certainly a very good use of our money! A fraction of that could be invested in healthcare for TAs or a raise above inflation and it would be life-changing. Alas, we have an employer that hates labour and would rather go scorched-earth on it's unions.

AMPE

@AMPE_AMPE

1 month

@agsem_aeedem Don't forget all the money McGill is paying its high-priced attorney team to challenge you, us, @AMPL_AMPD , and other unions. Plus their promise to defend scabbing profs. This amount is surely in the hundreds of thousands annually, just in the context of union busting.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

In a labour relations meeting yesterday, the union reiterated our position that we are open to come to an agreement about the application of 109.1c and allow TAs to resume their regular duties—especially in mission-critical positions. They're more interested in strike-breaking.

AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

Fabrice Labeau, Deputy Provost Office, Student Life and Learning requesting managers to volunteer to be untrained invigilators to meet legal requirements to provide accommodations because they fired all striking TAs from their other positions on campus 💀 @mcgillu

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@agsem_aeedem

1 month

Complaints about McGill's draconian and shameful policy around employee emails can be sent to: Mr. Francis Desjardins, Director of Human Resources francis.desjardins @mcgill .ca 8/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

"Systems accesses, including email, will only be restored once the strike is over. No exception will be made, it is unnecessary to contact the IT team regarding this matter." 6/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@AMPL_AMPD @TheLawofWork @eidlin @mcgillu McGill has called the cops on our picketers 4 out of 4 days, and security is increasingly aggressive with following and stopping members from entering buildings for their regular things wearing their student "hats".

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

These are not simply employee emails, and the employer's heavy-handed reaction to freeze employee email accounts once again shows their lack of understanding of our roles here at the university as student employees. 3/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@dennis_wendt @mcgillu McGill admin, in 2019, made 45% more than UdeM admin. If McGill TAs made 45% more than UdeM TAs, we'd make $38.90. This is one cent off the U15 average we've been asking for.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

COMMUNITY CALL-IN: Cops Off Our Campus community discussion - Wednesday, April 3 @ 2pm, Leacock Terrace

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@mkhanpasha *TAs on strike + protests against genocide happen on campus* McGill:

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 months

INTERESTED IN JOINING US AT THE PICKET LINE? check the AGSEM instagram for updates ! Pending results of negotations we are picketing most days except public holidays! We are grateful for your support.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@dennis_wendt @mcgillu Another metric is that the top 41-paid admin at McGill cost the institution the same amount per year as 2700 TAs.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

The rich have class solidarity.

Dennis Wendt, PhD

@dennis_wendt

1 month

And this right here explains as much as anything why a small group of @mcgillu administrators are so committed to union busting. They are the primary beneficiaries of keeping wages low for their wee minions.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

Members need this access for important emails regarding publications, jobs, travel, and immigration, and also store their research on the One Drive. 2/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@AMPL_AMPD @TheLawofWork @eidlin @mcgillu We have adjusted our picket tactics from the first day of our strike in response to feedback from our community, but this employer is muddying the water and escalating the situation and putting its students and employees in danger. Cops off our campus.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

The word's out! Tonight, delegates passed a motion to give $1,000 (CAD) to @payusmoreucsc @cola4all . We remain firm in our support of grad students in the UC system. Mutual aid 4 all! Another statement to come, but again--donate if you can: #Cola4All

AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

@payusmoreucsc @danji @ucsc @cola4all Spoilers from Danji! 😉 But we'll follow up soon.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

"However, TAs still have access to Workday to view their pay stubs and tax statements. Those who experience issues with the 2 factor authentication when trying to access Workday can contact IT for support." 7/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 years

AGSEM is strongly concerned about McGill's plan to return to in-person activities. Read our recent blog to find our more:

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

As of Wednesday, April 3 we have this definitive response from the Director of Human Resources: "This is email is to clarify the situation regarding McGill email access for TAs." 5/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

McGill initially was open to forwarding our requests to McGill IT to unlock employee email access on a case-by-case basis. 4/8

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 months

Jokes aside--we do need to file our taxes but we also need access to this info for immigration renewal. We also need to submit timesheets for other positions but SURPRISE TAs are also suspended from our other jobs. 1/3

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

9 years

Look at these smiling faces! http://t.co/pTG3o9ztON

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

At last night's Delegates' Council meeting, we approved the following statement in support of the UGSA wildcat strike. Read our statement here: @payusmoreucsc @cola4all #solidarityforever

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

They deserve each other, honestly.

Dennis Wendt, PhD

@dennis_wendt

1 month

Is @mcgillu admin competing with the provincial government in a contest for scaring prospective students away?

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@dennis_wendt They act as if we are not collecting evidence on them.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Tenure clock accommodations are being made for profs at @mcgillu , and the uni hasn't hit their own graduation goals for PhD or master's students. Instead of forcing students to deregister (and face visa/healthcare regimes), why not give grad students another year, too? 🤔

Stephanie DeGooyer

@S_DeGooyer

4 years

I just don't understand how tenure track folks can be given an entire extra year and PhD students are given nothing, forced out in an epic recession without health care, etc.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Myth: TAs and other academic support workers can just hop on Zoom to teach Reality: @mcgillu has refused to give licensed Zoom (or other) accounts to these workers, suggesting just restarting the 40-min free sessions. (Most courses, conferences, etc are longer than 40 min)

McGill University

@mcgillu

4 years

Zoom Security: Myth vs Reality for Remote Teaching | via @McGill_IT

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

If McGill has the money to pay the principal ~3x the salary of the Premier of QC, McGill can pay $13.88/hr to Invigilators. Where is that money going, if not to help workers make ends meet in a pandemic? 🧐

AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

. @mcgillu is refusing to pay low-paid, precarious workers (whose salaries the University already budgeted for). We're also hearing worrying reports that laid-off workers haven't been informed that they were hired and laid off, keeping them from applying for CERB. #MadeByMcGill

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 months

@mcgillu @LawMcGill @profchristians So glad you've also unfrozen striking TAs' access to Workday so we can file our taxes!! @mcgillu #mcgill

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

The Dean of Arts @mcgillu just announced that it plans to "suspend" the Graduate Options in Gender and Women’s Studies + Dev Studies. There will be no feminist studies graduate programs at McGill, as of fall 2021. This is not okay. Sign the open letter:

Letter from Students to Oppose Graduate Option Suspension

docs.google.com

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Don't keep breaking our hearts💔, @mcgillu ! We'd love a better contract now--instead of delays to giving us your proposal, and roadblocks when we want to address harassment/discrimination!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Your mobilization team has learned to make memes. Get ready. 👋👋👋

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

5 years

Check out this interview in the @mcgilldaily with our TA Bargaining Chair! We've been in TA Bargaining for over a year, and stuck on equity for SIX MONTHS. McGill refuses: sexual violence protection, pronoun protection, disability accommodation.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

@payusmoreucsc Strike dogs are good dogs! 😍

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Thank you to everyone who came out to tonight's event about mental health. We're grateful to students for sharing their struggles. Still, students shouldn't have to (over + over) describe harm to get admins to believe that harm *is* being done. @mcgillu : we're calling you in.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Not that anyone was waiting on us, but we're fine if James McGill's remains are removed from in front of the Arts building, and his statue is removed from near the front gates.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Why is @mcgillu keeping international students from applying for prestigious provincial awards? McGill claims this was done "in the University's best interest"...but whose interest is this really in? 🧐

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Related to racism but unrelated to police violence: we're still uneasy with @mcgillu 's emails about racism, considering ongoing issues on campus. Looking at the numbers, we're coming up with <1% of profs as Black. And ethnic minority staff has dropped over the last 5 yrs.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

17 days

@TheGlintOfLight Guarantee this is not the first time he or the people on that email have done this--it's just the first time it became public knowledge.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

29 days

@mkhanpasha 🥰

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@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@dennis_wendt @mcgillu The size of TA contracts ranges from less than 45 hours to 180 hours. The average is about 105 hours per semester. That's $3468 pre-tax.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Update: we're staying home for the @mcgillu weekend cancellation (and the larger QC closure of universities for two weeks). We hope you're taking care as much as you can. If you have any concerns about your work as a TA or Invigilator: president @agsem -aeedem.ca

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

As @DivestMcGill , @mcgilldaily , and AGSEM members have noted, McGill has some pretty sketchy holdings: ~$3.3 mill: Barrick Gold Mines (human rights abuses) ~$580,000: Tucows (formerly hosted 8chan) ~$2.9mill: Royal Dutch Shell ...and McGill is affiliated w/TMT on Mauna Kea.

Divest McGill

@DivestMcGill

4 years

Live from the Board room. @mcgillu We won't rest until you #Divest #TimesUp #ExamsWontStopUs

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Did you know that we're the oldest TA labour union in the province? (And we were a rad association that fought for better working conditions for decades before that?)

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

~40% of AGSEM members in our 2017 survey had to forego healthy food due to lack of funds. And right now...things are feeling precarious. A collective of students have started coordinating food aid. You can sign up here: (open to students/non-students!)

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

5 years

We stand in solidarity with grad students @hgsuuaw . For many months, we too have been fighting for harassment protections, as well as clarification on @mcgillu 's Sexual Violence Policy--HR continues to say NO.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Hey, @mcgillu : Pay your workers. Support your students. Maybe rethink administrators' $250k-$500k (and up!) salaries?

McGill University

@mcgillu

4 years

Opinion: As the #COVID19 pandemic drags the world economy into a recession, governments around the world are taking unprecedented economic measures. Labour market interventions are key to bringing the recessionary spiral to a halt. @fscoamodio

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@AMPE_AMPE @eidlin @mcgillu AMPE's logo is beautiful.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

AGSEM stands in solidarity with the wildcat strikers in the UC system, donating $1000 CAD to the UCSC graduate student workers' strike fund! COLA🥤4 all! #ULPstrike4COLA #cola4all #ucscstrike #colastrike Read our statement -->

Statement of Solidarity: COLA Wildcat Strikes

The AGSEM Delegates’ Council and Executive Committee stand in solidarity with striking workers across the University of California system.

www.agsem.ca

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

9 years

We have a strike puppy!! Say hi to simon! http://t.co/3ole3mKHqg

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

We love: ❤️ our delegates ❤️ our comrades around the world ❤️ solidarity We do not love: ❌ not giving UC grads a COLA ❌ firing grad students for striking to make ends meet ❌ using cops against striking grad students

anabasine🇵🇸

@danji

4 years

One again proud of my union @AGSEM_AEEDEM for passing another solidarity motion + allocating mutual aid funding to striking comrades at @payusmoreucsc . @ucsc just fired a bunch of them, which is bullshit. @cola4all #cola4all #COLAStrike #UCSCstrike #UCUstrikes Solidarity Forever!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@eidlin @dennis_wendt @mcgillu Column: the combined salaries of all senior administrative staff as reported annually to the Quebec National Assembly. Band: a single administrator’s pay, base salary, and any bonuses, severance, or other compensation. This figure does not include expenses.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

AGSEM has previously + will continue to stand against racism. We mourn not only Regis Korchinski-Paquet, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade--we also mourn Pierre Coriolan, Anthony Griffin, Fredy Villanueva, and Nicholas Gibbs, who were killed by the police in Montréal.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Our 2017 AGSEM member survey showed that 36.1% of members have had to go without medical, dental, or optometric care due to lack of money. @mcgillu can do better. #campussolidarity

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

9 years

AGSEM president Justin Irwin giving an important speech about what we're all here for today. http://t.co/tJq8am0ZH1

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

*whispers* Police unions aren't actually unions, we can't police our way out of a pandemic

CBC Montreal

@CBCMontreal

4 years

Quebec government instructs police to increase presence around high schools

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

29 days

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! Morning shifts starting Monday the 15th will now start at 8:30am instead of 7:30am!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Have you RSVPed yet for the AGSEM TA Unit Assembly? Don't forget, do it now! You must RSVP by Tuesday, Sept 29 at 5pm. This is open to all who have worked as a TA in the last 12 months, or who are currently a TA.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

2 months

Will they come to the table and negotiate this, or will they let a bunch of workers they have not informed of their suspension continue to work without pay like they did in 2008? 3/3

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Reminder on this #MayDay that academic labour is labour, and that a lot of the teaching that happens in Universities is done by amazing, talented people...for little pay.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

9 years

Picketing is well on its way! Come join us! http://t.co/NW0tR1Fnr7

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

. @mcgillu put out a statement about "Addressing Systemic Racism." There are big concerns. And not just that less than 1% of McGill profs are Black. Or that groups (like the Black Students' Network) have been doing anti-racist work for years, without (white) admins listening.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

According to a Q+A from @EducationQC , institutions should work with local union groups "in order to ensure a concerted message." Will our members' concerns be addressed? Will our university work with us? @mcgillu , on vous attend... 👋

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

This is not divestment.

McGill University

@mcgillu

4 years

Committee recommends decreasing the carbon intensity of #McGill ’s investment portfolio, including those within the fossil fuel industry

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

3 years

Before we get more into the issues around Workday--what should you do if you're affected? PS: More info on Workday is on our website!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

McGill University

@mcgillu

4 years

“What we’re omitting then in the Canadian landscape, across the board in our curriculum, from the youngest children into university age, is the 200-year history of slavery in Canada.” --Charmaine Nelson @McGillArts

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

👀👀👀 @mcgillu

The Chronicle of Higher Education

@chronicle

4 years

In several metro areas, the median annual wage for a graduate teaching assistant falls well below the living-wage threshold.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

McGill HR and administrators are keen on telling us that "Everyone deserves a vacation!" Yet... @mcgillu still has not paid TAs our legally-mandated vacation pay. TAs (currently facing pressure from McGill to deliver in-person work) not being paid fairly? That's not a vacation.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Money for research is great! But...where's the money for academic support staff who suddenly lost their jobs, and are being told they get $0 because of zero-hours contracts? 🧐

McGill University

@mcgillu

4 years

Quatre millions contre la #COVID19 via @lp_lapresse @McGillMed @cusm_muhc #cavabienaller

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

What is @mcgillu doing to help grad students? Will grad students get more time to finish, or will we be timed out early? Will the PhD grad rate after 6 years continue to fall below McGill's targets every year? (rate is well below the 60% mark)

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

**January 17! Noon!** Join AGSEM and others (incl organizers at @theSSMU ) in protesting against xenophobia and racism! Speeches at noon at corner of Dr Penfield and McTavish, march to Ministry of Immigration, Francisation, and Immigration after!

Grande manifestation étudiante contre la Loi 21

Causes event by Non à la loi 21 and 4 others on Friday, January 17 2020 with 1.1K people interested and 387 people going. 20 posts in the discussion.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@CaseyBroughton @eidlin @mcgillu Absolutely. They are still attempting to create a narrative with their false claims to the community, though. And we are 4 days for 4 of police on our campus...

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Note-taker? Grader? Tutor? JOIN US. Grad student, undergrad, non-student: if you've worked at McGill in the last 12 months in a non-unionized academic support job, we'd love for you to join us.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Many instructors at @mcgillu who are teaching this summer--largely grad students--are seeing their class sizes suddenly double (or more!). McGill now refuses to hire TAs, opting for workers who can be paid minimum wage, who will have no contact with students. #MadeByMcGill

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

9 years

Five days until our one day strike!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Tomorrow - Dec 11! 5-8 pm! LEA 232! Along with @SSMUExternal and @SSMUSenators , we'll be sharing our research about @mcgillu 's support (?) of mental healthcare. Here's a sneak peek! (All students invited--personal experiences welcome, let's act in solidarity! ✊) 👋👋👋

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

- Our CA + QC labour law allows workers (including TAs!) to refuse unsafe work, and we support our members exercising their rights (and staying safe) - If you're being pressured to return to campus, let us know, confidentially: grievance.1 @agsem -aeedem.ca

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

👀 @mcgillu

trish

@ULTRAGLOSS

4 years

colleges be like “we are against institutionalized racism” baby u are the institutionalized racism

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

1 month

@agp_bach 🫡

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

5 years

From one TA bargaining committee to another, AGSEM expresses solidarity and support for GWC-UAW Local 2110 Graduate Workers of Columbia as they go to the table!

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

5 years

Our new website is now live! You'll notice a number of new features, such as News, Events, and FAQs, and a general commitment to increasing the amount of useful information for our members. Optimization for mobile view is still to come, as are a few...

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

Finally, did @mcgillu think about the Milton-Parc community when calling students back to MTL (as some grad students were, due to a mistakenly-sent HR email)? 😬 Our community's safety matters.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

4 years

ALSO keep in mind that @mcgillu is relying heavily on underpaid graduate student and/or other casual academic labour to keep classes running...while admins make $400,000, $500,000/year.

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AGSEM | MCGILL UNION

@agsem_aeedem

9 years

Thanks to our scrutineer volunteers, including Molly from AMUSE, without which this assembly would be much more chaotic and unregulated.

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