Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:56:07 -0500
From: "DCL"
To: message@esmartstudent.com
Subject: To J regarding comments to Mic
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I find it interesting how you as a person can ask why TAs should bother worrying about
undergrads yet at the same time ask us to support Cupe 3903 to
end the strike. Off course, students who have right now endured through
this long strike know nothing about strikes huh? One can easily see the negative
aspects of a strike which are epitomized by Cupe 3903. Have you ever wondered
the type of crappy jobs students are working for to pay off their tuition?
Well, chances are that they are a lot more labour intensive and less paying
than what Cupe 3903 does (which is nothing now and they get paid for it). J
makes mention that since it is the public who invests in a service to
receive education, they should put pressure on York to obtain it, from
the events of these past weeks, I wish we could just dismiss Cupe 3903 entirely
and find a new set of TAs who are not as greedy (apparently all the TAs from
other universities receive less than York TAs according to figues displayed on the
York website). After all that garbage and ideology bull crap is all said and
done, when a deal is hopefully reached (in what looks like the distant future),
it wasn't done with any honour. The best analogy to show this is like this:
The boss (administration) doesn't want to give his employee (Cupe 3903)
a raise, so this employee decides that the only way the boss is going to pay
a attention is if he beats the day lights out of the boss's bastard child
(students). The end result, you get a boss who might or not care, an employee
with bloodied fists (which were pointed the wrong way) and a crippled bastard child.
The administration might be the motivation for why this strike is happening,
but Cupe is the reason it is happening. Is there anything wrong with that,
I don't think so, if Cupe is not happy with what they are getting, they should
try and get better. Should they screw over 30 000 students in the process, no
way! If Cupe was intelligent enough to find a way of keeping the issue of this
strike between the people involved (the
m and the administration) in a way that would benefit them, not a single
York student would feel like dung. However, most students don't intend on
becoming TAs (that would explain why there is only around 2000 them, but one
most also minus the lack of support from Unit 2 by over 700 people as well) so
they are not representing us or on our side. If anything, students should be
urged to give the lowest marks on TAs when it comes time for them to be
evaluated at the end of the year, because the recourse they have been taking is
robbing us of our education.
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