Though voter turnout down, teaching assistants ratify new contract
U of T’s TAs voted in favour to accept the tentative agreement CUPE 3902 had been negotiating for over the last few weeks on Friday.
The union represented not only TAs, but also lab demonstrators and Chief Presiding Officers in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In all 486 ballots were cast: 370 were in favour of the tentative agreement, 116 against. There were 3 spoiled ballots.
Voter turnout declined steeply from that of the strike vote last December, where 1,247 ballots were cast, 1,015 of those were in favour of a strike if contract negotiation failed, and 232 would not give the bargaining committee the mandate.
-TRAVIS CAMPBELL
Cheney shoots lawyer on hunting trip
U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a lawyer friend while the two were out on a quail-hunting trip in Texas, Cheney’s spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was injured after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong. He is reportedly “alert and doing fine.”
-STAFF
