Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:02:17 -0500
From: "Undergraduate Student"
To: message@esmartstudent.com
Subject: Issues of CUPE union.


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I am a fourth year undergraduate student. Before reading the message above
from a CUPE member, I thought that the major disagreement between York
administration and the Union was on monetary issues. I was never clear on
the issues of strike, but now I am even more confused. It sounds that the
major issue is not the money or the tuition freeze for current grads, but
rather the protection of future graduate students (many of whom are us -
undergrads).

But we are loosing more money and time each day the strike goes on. If the
strike doesn't end soon, many of us won't have a chance to go to graduate
school. The reputation of York University is falling because of this
disruption, and fewer students will choose York as their graduate school
next year. If this is really for future graduate students, why we were not
asked if we want it? I am sure the majority of 33,000 undergrads want the
strike to end regardless of how it ends!

Personally, I feel that I lost to this strike more that I could possibly gain.

Yet another frustrated Undergraduate Student.



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