The picket schedule

Many picket teams have brought music, noisemakers, etc in an effort to make this a more enjoyable experience.  These are great initiatives and we encourage everyone to create ways of making picket duty as enjoyable as possible.   If we stick together, we will win this.

 

Beginning on Wednesday, September 24, we will be changing to a rotation of three shifts of three hours per strike pay period which means everyone is required to do 3 shifts of 3 hours picket duty for the full weekly strike pay.

It is important to remind everyone that the purposes of picketing at this point in the strike are three fold:

a)    To demonstrate solidarity and resolve to the community and the administration.

b)    To communicate our issues to students and the public in an effort to gain and sustain their support and involvement in pressuring the administration to settle.

c)    To build membership solidarity and mutual commitment to gaining a fair collective agreement.

A central goal is to get students and citizens to contact the Board of Governors and the President.  Talk to them about the issues, ask them how they are doing, what they are studying, etc.  If you run out of conversation or you’ve already talked to them at length on a previous day, keep it brief and let people pass.  Since classes are cancelled, we have very little to gain in delaying most vehicles or people from entering.  Above all, avoid upsetting people if at all possible.   If someone is belligerent or angry just thank them and let them go by.  

Keep up the great work!

For the Schedule, click here.

WUFA • Benign Unless Provoked