{"id":35306,"date":"2021-01-28T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=35306"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:13:40","slug":"on-the-road-to-unionization-for-academic-workers-at-the-university-of-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/on-the-road-to-unionization-for-academic-workers-at-the-university-of-waterloo\/","title":{"rendered":"The road to unionization for academic workers at the University of Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Host: <\/span>Shalaka Jadhav<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

One of many ongoing and underlying issues that the pandemic has brought attention is workers rights, safety and wages. Across various workplaces, the importance of unions in giving workers a collective voice in the workplace has amplified, and this extends to the students at an institution we may not often think of: the University of Waterloo, and its student workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this segment, CKMA interviews Lynne Sargent and Nicolay Videnov, students who are part of the Committee to Organize uWaterloo, a grassroots campaign to unionize the academic workers at the University of Waterloo. <\/span><\/p>\n

Their interviews are complimented by Graham Cox, a researcher and organizer at the Canadian Union of Public Employees, referred to as CUPE during this show. With over 700,000 members, CUPE is Canada's largest union. CUPE represents 70,400 workers spanning 233 collective agreements in the post-secondary education sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

To learn more about Organize uWaterloo, check out <\/span>organizeuw.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Check out the archived versions of\u00a0 this program and other episodes on <\/span><\/i>radiowaterloo.ca\/news<\/span><\/i><\/a>., and other stories commissioned under the Local Journalism Initiative at <\/span><\/i>canada-info.ca<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

You can\u00a0 follow us on twitter <\/span><\/i>@RadioWaterloo<\/span><\/i><\/a>. If you want to get in touch with comments, or ideas about stories to cover, email us at <\/span><\/i>news@radiowaterloo.ca<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Music for this episode was courtesy of <\/span><\/i>Dylan Prowse<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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