We at CUPE 5524 are deeply excited to expand our membership with the recent addition of Graduate Teaching Assistants and Research Assistants as Unit 1 of our Local! Sessional Faculty will now retain the designation of Unit 0. This addition expands our membership into the thousands, increasing our capacity to fight for fair representation and improve working conditions for Academic Workers at the University of Waterloo.
Unit 1 has already been hard at work, detailing certain things such as their membership, electing a new Unit Vice President (welcome to Nolan!), and beginning the process of electing their Bargaining Committee.
Next up for the Local will be the election of a Bylaw Committee with the aim of establishing a formal structure of the Local and its Units, as well as to build in decision making mechanisms beyond the CUPE Constitution.
In solidarity,
CUPE Local 5524 Executive Committee