There will be no picket lines on Monday and Tuesday. Instead, members are encouraged to earn picket pay by helping to coordinate the No Vote activities over the weekend and on Monday and Tuesday. Here is how to help and who to contact:
(a) Phone-Arounds. Help call people to pull out the vote. Contact Greg Bird: gregdbird@gmail.com
(b) Door-to-Door Canvassing. House calls to pull out the vote. Contact Ryan Toews toewsr@gmail.com and Baolinh Dang baolinhd@gmail.com
(c) Organizing Sunday Rally (see 4.a above). Contact Jordy Cummings to help: jordylcummings@hotmail.com
(d) Organizing Monday Rally (see 4.b above). Contact Noaman Ali to help: noaman.ali@gmail.com
(e) If you are over 25, have a driver’s license, have independent insurance, and want to help with accessible transportation on Monday and Tuesday, contact Healy Thompson: healythompson@gmail.com
(f) On Monday and Tuesday, we will need people handing out information in the shuttles arranged by York. For more information on this, contact Niki and Alicia (csn.thorne@gmail.com, amgrimes@yorku.ca)
(g) On Monday and Tuesday, we will need people handing out information and helping mobilize around the hotel. For more information, contact Lana (bananachka@hotmail.com)
(h) For more tasks related specifically to the mobilization of the No Vote at the Hotel, please contact Christina Roussea: christina.rousseau@gmail.com
(i) To help organize a post-rat vote party, contact the Executive, who will give you parameters (noaman.ali@gmail.com).
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To focus on the forced ratification vote, here are some other duties you can do and get paid for:
Option #1 – Ride the Novotel Shuttle Bus
Sit at the front of the bus with a buddy and hand out info flyers to riders
– buses depart from the Keele and Glendon campuses, as well as Downsview Station
– two shift options: 8am-1pm or 2pm-7pm (5 hours)
– buses depart from the Keele and Glendon campuses, as well as Downsview Station
– two shift options: 8am-1pm or 2pm-7pm (5 hours)
– please email <ratmob3903@gmail.com> telling us which day and shift you’d like to do, your preference for the departure point, and whether you have a buddy (+ name)
– we’ll get back to you asap to confirm and provide more details
Option #2 – Hang out at the North York Centre
Hand out flyers or talk to fellow CUPE members inside the mall
– two shift options: 9am-1pm or 3pm-7pm (4 hours)
– just show up and sign-in with the captain at Cafe Supreme, down the hall from the Novotel entrance inside the mall. If entering mall from the subway or Yonge street, it’s the last cafe on the left-hand side, before the library. We will be sitting on the “patio” along the main walk-way. And of course, you can go vote during your shift.
– two shift options: 9am-1pm or 3pm-7pm (4 hours)
– just show up and sign-in with the captain at Cafe Supreme, down the hall from the Novotel entrance inside the mall. If entering mall from the subway or Yonge street, it’s the last cafe on the left-hand side, before the library. We will be sitting on the “patio” along the main walk-way. And of course, you can go vote during your shift.
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A Message from the CUPE 3903 Strike Accessibility Committee
Members requiring accessible transportation to and/or from the forced ratification vote have four options:
(1) Take the TTC to Finch or Sheppard stations and then take the accessible shuttle from those stations to the hotel for the vote.
(2) Arrange for WheelTrans service and CUPE 3903 will reimburse you for the cost (contact healythompson@gmail.com or 416-660-1352 for reimbursement)
(3) Call the number York university is asking people to contact for accessible transportation from York University–Nicole Arsenault at 416-736-5866 or by e-mail at
(4) (The Most Fun Option) Take the accessible van transportation CUPE 3903 is providing to and from the ratification vote for anyone needing accessible transportation within Toronto. To take advantage of this option, contact Healy Thompson at healythompson@gmail.com or 416-660-1352 ____________________________________________________________
Read the CUPE 3903 newspaper ad — We are CUPE 3903 — in the January 16th Toronto Star (p. A18), Globe and Mail (p. A9), here, and circulate far and wide with pride.
TheStar.com, January 18, Letter to the Editor
News Blast: York Faculty Association Vows to Support Strikers
Open Letter of the Week: Fred Ho replies to Bernie Lightman
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