“This strike is, at heart, about maintaining the quality of a great university system. Ontario has historically provided its students with first-class faculty working in first-rate facilities. All faculty associations in Ontario support their Windsor colleagues in their refusal to bow to administration pressures to dilute that quality. Administration demands such as uncompetitive salaries, insecure employment for young teachers, and teaching-only positions all jeopardize the quality of university education. University wage demands will put Windsor faculty well below the Ontario average. The university is pleading poverty, but other universities in Ontario are meeting faculty salary demands while receiving the same level of provincial funding.”
Henry Mandelbaum
Executive Director,
Ontario Confederation of University
Faculty Associations

 

Messages of Solidarity

WUFA is heartened by all the expressions of support.  From within our University, our beloved city and environs, and to our sister associations and unions from afar.  To date, we have received generous contributions of food (for all our members and students marching the picket lines), material, and money.  Thank you!

CAUT-Defense Fund

Support and Contributors

 1.  CUPE National

 2.  CUPE 1393, University of Windsor, Aldo DiCarlo

 3.  CUPE 1001, Joel Bentley, Dave Montgomery, James Kehoe

4.  CUPE 4580,  GA/TAs

5.  CAW Local 195, Unniversity of Windsor, Wayne Venables

6.  CAW Local 2458, University of Windsor, Mike Kisch

7.  CAW Local 2415, Pat Seguin

8.  University of Windsor StudentsÕ Alliance

9. University of Windsor Graduate Students Society

10.  Ellen Burdett
Mt Royal College Faculty Association, Calgary, Alberta
403-440-6192;

Called: will be speaking with other members of Faculty Assoc RE sending a donation to WUFA

 11. Jean-Charles Cachon,

Laurentian University: Faculty Association (LUFA-APPUL)

705-675-6518, ext. 2126

12. Kimberly Benoit, Executive Director

Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA)

905-688-5550, ext. 3268; 

Will attend Friday September 19^th, 2008 rally to support WUFA strike action

13. Dr. Catherine Stanley

Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) 
14. Albert Katz

University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA)

katz@uwo.ca

 15. Kelly Meckling

University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA)

16. Brad Long, Treasurer and DF Trustee

StFXAUT

17. Rick Grylls, President CAW 598 Sudbury

Email: of support on behalf of the 15 units and 2000 members of CAW598 Sudbury

18. Bill Schipper, President from the MUNFA membership.

 19. Ken Lewenza has given us his localsÕ full support in solidarity.

 20.CAW Local 195 Gerry Farnham, President

21. WSU Union of P/T Faculty / AFT,AFL-CIO – Bryan G. Pfeifer Staff Organizer  (Detroit, Michigan)

22. University of New Brunswick (UGSW) – Graham Cox Union of Graduate Student Workers

23. Leddy Library CUPE 2067

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