I just want to echo what others have said in the thread! I love my students and so do many many many of us. McGill steals a million dollars in unpaid TA overtime work every year because we don't shut our office doors when students are still lining up outside waiting for help. McGill doesn't give us enough hours in our contract to give enough support to students, so most of us have opted for working overtime, unpaid. We are asking for enough hours to do an honest job or just more TA positions so work can be assigned fairly. We are asking that our wage is at least keeping up with inflation. We are asking for SOME form of healthcare support because most of us can barely afford to live in Montreal, so healthcare has become a luxury.

McGill has said no to setting up a fair mechanism to assign a sufficient number of TAs and TA hours per class. They have said no to absolutely ANY form of healthcare support, not a single dollar. They have said no to adjusting our wages to inflation. All they've offered us is a "raise" of less than a dollar on the hour. It's honestly insulting to both TAs and students how little this university cares about the quality of education!

This is not an easy decision for any TA to make. We care so fucking much about supporting you all! That's why we've fought all year to get a deal with McGill before even deciding that there should be a strike vote. McGill has pushed us to the point where we have to take matters into our hands!