[OISE Master of Teaching 2021 UofT]

15 minutes ago, milkyb00 said:

"Members Approve Provisional Strike Timeline

POSTED ON MAY 20, 2021 BY COMMS OFFICER

At our SGMM yesterday (May 19th), the membership grappled with the Employer’s continued reluctance to bargain in good faith on our proposals. The collective agreements for CUPE 3903 Units 1, 2, and 3 expired on August 31, 2020. Since then we have collected data, and on December 9th, presented the Employer a concise package of proposals. Our proposals aim to affirm job security for contract faculty, and promote employment equity, which aligns with York’s publicly stated commitment to ensure equity, diversity and inclusion. Despite the Union’s expressed desire and efforts to address these issues concretely and expeditiously in the context of the pandemic, the Employer has engaged with our proposals minimally.

 

Given how protracted movement has been at the bargaining table, the membership has approved a provisional strike timeline in order to consider the next steps in the bargaining process, and has restated their support for the Bargaining Team; they urge the Employer to bargain seriously."

 

Nothing for sure, but given how many times York has had strike issues in the last 20 years... this is not making me feel more confident in pursuing studies there. 

Thanks for sharing this info! I just did some additional research and found this link: https://www.excal.on.ca/news/2021/01/12/collective-bargaining-between-york-and-cupe-3903-continues-into-the-new-year/ .  It highlights that the current conflict is concerning TA's and graduate assistants SO I feel like it would most likely not affect the teaching program (probably just undergrad). 

[OISE Master of Teaching 2021 UofT]

9 hours ago, milkyb00 said:

Waitlisted for PJ and JI for the second year even after getting tons more experience and taking another course I did very well in to bump my grades. I hope maybe I'll hear back this year. Never heard back last year. I accepted my York offer, but now the potential of strike at York has me panicked.

I wish I could ask what keeps me from getting accepted. But their policy is not to reveal their deliberations to any applicants.

 

I also decided to accept my offer at York as opposed to attending OISE BUT I hadn't heard there was a potential strike happening at York? Where did you hear that/is there any additional information you have on that?  

[OISE Master of Teaching 2021 UofT]

Hi all, 

I know a lot of people accept multiple offers while they decide which school they want to go to ... on my acceptance letter for MT at OISE the admission deposit was not due until June 1st. So I think there is a strong possibility that people will be accepted following that date, as some people may decide to go with another school instead. 

I hope you guys hear back soon, and good luck! 

 

[OISE Master of Teaching 2021 UofT]

14 hours ago, K93 said:

Did anyone applied after Nov 16th heard any answer from the school yet?

I also know someone who applied after November 16th and they heard back the same day as me (February 12). 

[OISE Master of Teaching 2021 UofT]

I ended up following up with admissions about it and they told me it was a glitch in their system appearing for all applicants and that the deposit should only appear on ACORN after you have submitted a confirmation form for the program and formally been given an Offer of Admission. I'm not sure how accurate that is but it sucks because I definitely got my hopes up a bit  

[OISE Master of Teaching 2021 UofT]

Hey!

I also applied to the MT. I applied before Nov 16 and I applied to all three strands but my preference is J/I. I'm currently in my fourth year, my GPA for third year was 3.85 but my overall GPA is a 3.2. I have 4000+ hours in paid/volunteer experience (camp, basketball coach, classroom volunteer, lunch monitor, etc). 

I also thought that acceptances wouldn't be released until March, but I'm currently a UofT student and when I went onto Acorn under my finances section I had 3 outstanding admission deposits for MT (P/J, J/I, I/S). When I click it on it says to accept admissions offer, but when I went to check the portal my application still says under review. So not quite sure what that means ... might be an error through UofT or the application portal is delayed?