More than 1,000 contract faculty at York University are returning to work Monday morning.
CUPE Local 3903 union members have been on strike since March 5, citing issues such as job security, the ability for contract faculty to achieve tenured positions and protecting funding for teaching assistants as some of their concerns.
Units 1 and 3 are still on strike, so about 1,900 teaching assistants and graduate assistants remain on the picket line.
Last week, the Star reported that Premier-designate Doug Ford will recall the legislature next month for a brief summer session to end the York University strike.
In a news release Friday, the school said they it will take a few days for remediation plans to be finalized and that in-class lectures will not be starting right away.
The first convocation ceremonies for the class of 2018 got underway Friday despite the strike. York spokesperson Barbara Joy said that around 500 students had to postpone their graduation “for a variety of reasons attributable to the strike.”
With files from Andrea Gordon
Alexandra Jones Alexandra Jones is a former breaking news reporter for the Star.
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