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Teaching assistants and part time faculty at Halifax’s Dalhousie University went on strike just after midnight Friday, April 23. The 930 members of CUPE 3912 are holding out for an increase in pay for teaching assistants.

Teaching assistants at Dalhousie are among the lowest paid in Canada, earning almost $10 an hour less than the national average. Most of them work from six to ten hours per week.

“In light of the fact that the province has just increased funding to Dalhousie by almost $4 million, this is a real slap in the face to teaching assistants, who work hard to provide program and faculty support to the university,” says CUPE 3912 President Barbara Moore.

Teaching assistants at Dalhousie are among the lowest paid in Canada, earning almost $10 an hour less than the national average. Most of them work from six to ten hours per week.

“Teaching assistants are not only being asked to accept lousy pay. As students, they are being hit with yet another tuition increase of over seven percent this fall,” adds Moore. “Tuition rates have increased at a greater rate than teaching assistants’ earnings this is unacceptable and the university should be ashamed of its meager offer.”