Should Graduate TAs and TFs achieve increased wages and benefits, will these monetary gains affect future tuition costs or the number of TAships?
Tuition rates and wage rates are not directly co-related because the University incurs costs unrelated to wage rates that affect tuition rates such as debt servicing payment and infrastructure costs. Our reality is that tuition costs are increasing with or without a union. By forming a Union we can make sure that we secure fair wage increases and adequate benefits. The goal, as in other unionized campuses, is to index the wages to the tuition to ensure that when tuition goes up our wages follow. Queen’s university is one of the few universities in Canada not to have a TA union. There has been no reduction of TAships in other universities represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Indeed the number of graduate TAs at the University of Western Ontario has tripled over the past 10 years since graduate students formed a Union. Similar to our experience at Queen’s, universities rely upon more TAs every year. (And when it comes to TFs, it is far less expensive to hire a graduate s
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