As always. Click image for full text.
This is a substantial update made more interesting by what isn’t there.
For the first time ever, the DMCs — formerly Ad-Hocs Against Administration — do not challenge the legitimacy of Administration as undemocratic. Nor is there anything directly challenging the authority of the Administrator. No false GMMs get called by the DMCs in this update.
Does this mean the DMCs have given up the challenging? Only directly. Indirectly though, this update literally bristles.
For instance, the DMCs are calling for a 3903 rally on Friday, January 29 in Vari Hall. Reason:
Despite claiming that there was no more money to put into teaching, the last year has seen York spend millions on the ‘York 50’ advertising campaign and celebrations; its senior administrators have been identified as some of the highest paid public servants in the province; it is developing elaborate but pointless re-decoration projects…
Hold on. Wait. Looks like we already reported,
The 180 million raised for York 50’s campaign, according to the admin, has been allocated in the following way: 24% to student access and achievement, 12% to “academic talent”, 35% to infrastructure, and 29% to “pioneering programs”. 5 million of that will be going to bursaries for students that need it due to the strike.
Oh.. wait again. We CUPE local 3903s are some of those highest paid public servants in our own sector.
And — darn it — keep waiting. Turns out there could be a point re-decorating Vari Hall. Maybe to discourage hatred like this?
Well.. never mind so many details. The reason is sound — right? If YorkU can’t spend more money on us 3903s then it had better be totally broke. But, obviously, YorkU isn’t totally broke. Therefore YorkU must be pretty evil for not spending more money on us.
What a silly reason. If YorkU went totally broke then it wouldn’t spend the money on us it already does. We 3903s would be out of our jobs.
Well.. never mind the reasoning either, then. Indirectly, instigating this rally makes good tactical sense. If the DMCs can agitate enough resentment against YorkU to get 3903s mounting a considerable rally? That would certainly bolster perceptions of the DMC’s effectiveness mobilizing 3903s. It would mean the DMCs could once again hope to bear substantial pressure on the Administrator. For though the Administrator neutralized Ad-Hoc meetings when declaring they were not really 3903 meetings — she cannot neutralize a rally by declaring it isn’t a real 3903 rally. There’s no direct enough challenge to warrant even mentioning it.
Might be the DMCs have got their heads out of their sandboxes at last. Are local sympathies on their side against Administration, though? That may hinge, at least in part, on how much sense Paul Moist makes when addressing 3903s tomorrow. Will he have any ideas to try sorting our “dysfunctional” local?
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