The union membership vote on the York University contract proposal has been scheduled for January 19 and 20, from 9 am to 1 pm and 3 pm to 7 pm each day. These are the dates the university requested, and are four days later than those the union had proposed.

York, the third largest university in Canada, has been shuttered for 68 days by a strike of teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and adjunct faculty. The university is using a provision in Ontario labor law to force CUPE, the union representing the strikers, to poll the membership on their latest proposal. 

CUPE members rejected the proposal by a lopsided margin at a mass meeting last week, and are organizing to defeat it in this referendum. The three units of the union local will vote separately on January 19-20, and all three must approve the proposal to end the strike.

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