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Cost Cut Connections!

Are you concerned about the impacts of cost-cutting in your department or hiring unit at York University? Are you worried about class sizes expanding? Are you noticing jobs and courses being cut?

If you care about how top-down restructuring at York is affecting working and learning conditions, use this form to sign up and get in touch with someone who’s been through it already!

This includes former PKINS instructors, who have seen first hand the consequences of the upper admin’s cost cuts on their teaching. Get connected to someone who’s experienced cuts to share support, get advice, and organize for a better York U.

Questions? Contact Mackenzie Edwards, Communications Officer, at cupe3903comms@gmail.com

A brown gradient banner with the CUPE 3903 logo and images of scissors with dotted “cut here” lines. The text reads: Are you noticing… Expanding course sizes? Job cuts, course cuts? Get support from someone who’s been through it already! Cost Cut Connections.

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CUPE 3903 represents the contract faculty, teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and research assistants, part-time librarians and archivists, and Canadian Observatory on Homelessness workers at York University. 

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  • 143 Atkinson Building, 96 The Pond Road, York University, Keele Campus

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  • CUPE 3903, 143 Atkinson Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
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