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MUNACA Occupying Montreal For McGill Homecoming

McGill alumna Judy Rebick with picketing MUNACA workers. She told them that they are part of a bigger global movement also fighting for the same rights. Photo: Brianne Selman

MUNACA, the union representing 1,700 striking McGill support staff will be present in different locations in Montreal this weekend echoing the same message being voiced by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Both are fighting for transparency, accountability, fairness and equality. MUNACA members, who have been without a contract for a year, are seeking parity with other university workers in Montreal, protection of their pensions, and implementation of a fair wage scale.

During the McGill Homecoming this weekend, MUNACA will be disrupting a series of events urging McGill's big donors to withhold donations until the dispute is resolved fairly.

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Occupons McGill! A letter from the fifth floor occupiers

Occupons McGill! Photo: Fariduddin Attar Rifai/McGill Daily

We are the 14 students who occupied the fifth floor of the James Administration building at McGill University in Montreal. On Nov. 10, we took over the office of Her Majesty Blum. [Ed. note: McGill principal Heather Munroe-Blum]

Events in our world this year, as always, have revealed the necessity for direct action. At McGill, the administration has used the law to silence MUNACA workers and security to intimidate students and professors. The further abuse of the lines of communication between members of this community have made the administration's authoritarian character explicit.

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Alert! Radio #185: Jack Layton's impact on the NDP, and the strike at McGill

September 9, 2011
| Alert! discusses Jack Layton's impact on the NDP and contemplates what the future holds for politics and the Left in his absence. Kevin Whittaker talks about the support staff strike at McGill.

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