We don't want to strike, but we will: The root causes of the potential Unit 1 strike Strike?! You've probably heard the buzz around campus: Members of CUPE 3902 are bargaining a new collective agreement with our employer, the U of T administration. Maybe you've even heard rumours of an impending strike. Well, we are bargaining, and we might strike, and we're here to tell you more about it. Who is CUPE 3902? CUPE 3902 is the union representing 7,000 sessional instructors, TAs, and other contracted education workers at the U of T. The collective agreement for students who work as instructors and TAs expired on April 30, 2011, and we have been meeting regularly with U of T to negotiate a new collective agreement.  At the end of November, to demonstrate our seriousness to our employer (who was stalling at the bargaining table), we held a strike vote. It was one of the strongest strike votes in the history of Canadian higher-education unions, with 91% of our members supporting a strike mandate. On December 5 th , the University walked away from the bargaining table and filed for conciliation. Because of the University's intransigence, most of our key bargaining proposals have yet to be discussed at the table. What are we bargaining for? Learn much? The University of Toronto has some of the biggest classes in the country. To deal with these huge classes, the Administration has often hired TAs to run tutorials alongside lectures, giving students a chance