Cupe: UofT Sessional Faculty Reach Tentative Agreement

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Nov. 8, 2009) – University of Toronto sessional teaching staff – or contract faculty – members of CUPE Local 3902 Unit 3, reached a tentative settlement with the University administration on Sunday November 8.

“We’re relieved to have averted a strike for the sake of our students,” said Dr Leslie Jermyn, the Union team’s spokesperson and a sessional lecturer in Anthropology. “We’ve been motivated from the beginning by concern for the quality of their education. Our efforts to improve our teaching conditions are as much in the students’ interests as in our own.”