The occupation comes 18 days into a strike by roughly 3,000 teaching assistants, grad students and contract faculty at York University. Talks between CUPE 3903, which represents the strikers, and York resumed briefly on Tuesday, but broke off later in the day. “And that’s when the occupation began.” Since then, Dudin said, students and their supporters have remained inside the senate chambers. York University spokesperson Barbara Joy said the institution would allow the occupiers to remain inside for now. CUPE 3903 has expressed its gratitude to students behind the occupation: “All the love to the amazing Students for CUPE 3903, standing up for themselves and their education!” said the union on its official Twitter page.

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 20:53 UTC