Carleton University reached a tentative agreement with teaching assistants, service assistants and some research assistants Thursday night, ending the CUPE 4600 strike after nearly two weeks.
Details on the agreement have not been shared by either side. The deal must first be ratified by union members to be official.
The deal comes on day 11 of the strike, when the university Senate’s academic accommodations during labour disputes policy was activated. The strike ends less than a week before the end of the winter term.
The deal also comes after Carleton vice-president (students and enrolment) Suzanne Blanchard said in an email Thursday the university would be considering a revised grading policy, prompting concern within the union that the university would adopt the SAT/UNSAT grading policy and undermine teaching assistants’ bargaining position.
“Let’s just not do that to students, let’s just have a deal,” CUPE 4600 president Noreen Anne Cauley-Le Fevre told the Charlatan. “And then teaching assistants can come back to work and do the grading.”
This is a developing story. Updates to come.
Featured graphic by Sara Mizannojehdehi.
