January 26, 2001

Strike Ends at Toronto's York U.

By JANICE PASKEY

Classes resumed this month at York University after unionized teaching and graduate assistants voted to accept a contract offer from the Toronto-area institution, ending an 11-week strike.

"It's a critical victory," said Joel Harden, a Canadian Union of Public Employees spokesman and a doctoral student who is a teaching assistant. The 1,130 teaching assistants held out for tuition indexing, which means they are reimbursed for any tuition increases over the

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