Raise The Floor McMaster @RaiseMacFloor
It's time to Raise the Floor at McMaster University on funding for full-time grad students. Sign the open letter on our website. [email protected] raisethefloor.ca Hamilton, Ontario Joined July 2022-
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Join us Sunday morning to support residents at the 10 Bay Graduate Residence eventbrite.com/e/tenant-solid…
Terrible day for graduate residents of 10 Bay, even worst media day for @McMasterU. Paying $1300 minimum to rent in a shared apartment from a housing provider that is also your employer that knows the take-home pay of grads can scarcely afford their “market rent” unfathomable.
Terrible day for graduate residents of 10 Bay, even worst media day for @McMasterU. Paying $1300 minimum to rent in a shared apartment from a housing provider that is also your employer that knows the take-home pay of grads can scarcely afford their “market rent” unfathomable.
Just so we’re all clear here, finding ‘efficiencies’ likely means more privatization of the university.
Just so we’re all clear here, finding ‘efficiencies’ likely means more privatization of the university.
1) @McMasterU might have been unavailable (or maybe they just didn’t return the CBC’s call), the evidence is overwhelmingly clear: @ONgov needs to provide proper, stable, and meaningful funding increases to post-secondary education. #onpse @CUPEOntario
1) @McMasterU might have been unavailable (or maybe they just didn’t return the CBC’s call), the evidence is overwhelmingly clear: @ONgov needs to provide proper, stable, and meaningful funding increases to post-secondary education. #onpse @CUPEOntario
In response to backlash over a message of solidarity with Palestinians, the Executive of CUPE Local 3906 stands united against colonial occupation and state violence and has developed the following statement with profound care. Read in full here: cupe3906.org/2023/10/10/sta…
5) The insistence that the onus is on international students for struggling with costs of living, even as @McMasterU advertises an unaffordable (and tiny!) grad residence as the gold standard. Were you not advertising cost of living in admission letters as $13.5k just last year?
4) Affirming that funding is supposed to "support" students but not meet costs of living. Affirming McMaster is "financially healthy" but not able to provide livable funding - even with the most expensive construction project in Hamilton (a residence grad students can't afford)
My fave parts of @McMasterU's Town Hall on Graduate Funding? 1) Announcing the funding "floor" will raise to $17.5k after tuition. The poverty line is $20k. 2) Announcing this raise will benefit 7% of students. 3) Lifting the hours of work cap so students can...work 60+ hours?
An Open Letter to Community from CUPE 3906 Executive. (THREAD) 🧵 Since our strike last fall, we are concerned with what we believe to be an emerging campaign of repression by the @McMasterU discouraging student protest on campus. Please share widely. #HamOnt #onpoli #canpoli
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2) that should be a given. It’s unclear why so many universities are unable to say as much 🤷🏻♂️
In response to backlash over a message of solidarity with Palestinians, the Executive of CUPE Local 3906 stands united against colonial occupation and state violence and has developed the following statement with profound care. Read in full here: cupe3906.org/2023/10/10/sta…
Thank you for this 🧵 ! Disappointed but not surprised only 7% of PhD students will be seeing a funding increase …
Good morning to everyone except ppl who think grad students don't deserve liveable funding!! Town Hall on Graduate Funding kicking off shortly
Why would you have a town hall to announce that 93% of students get no funding increase?
5) The insistence that the onus is on international students for struggling with costs of living, even as @McMasterU advertises an unaffordable (and tiny!) grad residence as the gold standard. Were you not advertising cost of living in admission letters as $13.5k just last year?
4) Affirming that funding is supposed to "support" students but not meet costs of living. Affirming McMaster is "financially healthy" but not able to provide livable funding - even with the most expensive construction project in Hamilton (a residence grad students can't afford)
An Open Letter to Community from CUPE 3906 Executive. (THREAD) 🧵 Since our strike last fall, we are concerned with what we believe to be an emerging campaign of repression by the @McMasterU discouraging student protest on campus. Please share widely. #HamOnt #onpoli #canpoli
@RaiseMacFloor AKA as long as the university has a healthy surplus, graduate students can starve…
@cupe_3906 @RaiseMacFloor @CUPEOUWCC This!!! I have been told over and over again I shouldn't be working a full time job while doing my PhD... but if I follow the expectations of my PhD being my full time job and relied on TAing and funding... I would legit be homeless AND still not be able to afford groceries
i make half of minimum wage, $1200 a month. i dont take courses. i dont use campus. i teach your undergrads 2/2s, while tenured fac teach less. provosts don't teach at all. grad wages are being stolen for "tuition" while i work for nothing. university is a hedge fund.
McMaster grad. students 'don't have enough money to buy food,' want university to increase funding | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/ha… #HamOnt
On July 17, we are taking action for #StatusforAll across the country as we push for permanent immigration status and regularization of all migrants including undocumented people. And then join us at our open meeting and phone zap on July 19.
The pandemic is making clear what unions have always known: the obstinate refusal to provide human beings with decent working conditions, healthcare, leave, and robust social support ultimately costs societies more than simply looking after people & treating them with dignity.
The GSA has approved the CUPE 3906's "Raise the Floor Campaign" letter. Help us in the negotiations with the McMaster Graduate Council to raise the minimum funding floor of $13,500 for graduate students by reading and adding your name to our open letter buff.ly/3IpikgT
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