As many people know York university has stopped classes for around 2 months now. The striking teaching assistances have been wanting better wages and more notice on what classes they are getting and when. On Saturday the premier Dalton McGuinty called an emergency meeting with the mpp's to pass the back to work bill on Sunday. In that meeting on Sunday the premier needed all of the parties to agree with the idea; 60% did the others from the NDP's did not, the NDP said that York is just stalling the strike until it gets so serious that the government steps in to resolve the issue. The NDP goes on to say that York university refused to negotiate with the Teaching assistances and it is up to the university to get them back to work. The Bill will be passed and classes will resume late this week or early next.The Premier is right, the striking workers have prevented classes for long enough and if I were a student there I wouldn't be very happy with the university. Although the NDP's do have some good points, the university should of negotiated better instead of waiting for the government to step in. I think that the Teaching assistances demands were to high and that they shouldn’t get exactly what they asked for. Further down in the article it says that the teaching assistances account for over half of the teaching staff and only get 7% of the budget, this is wrong. The bottom line is that the students have been out of school way too long and need to go back to school.
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