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Is that what a higher education is worth?

Thats how much the University of Western Ontario wants to pay its Postdoctoral Associates. Sixty-eight cents above the minimum wage for workers with PhDs! Does that sound fair to you? Postdoctoral employees at the university have been trying for two years to negotiate a first collective agreement with UWO. Talks are now bogged down over wages, because UWO only wants to guarantee $10.93 per hour for a 44-hour work week, averaged over four weeks. These are highlyeducated researchers whose cutting-edge work helps put UWO on the map as a worldclass facility. Postdoctoral employees have spent at least a decade earning a higher education: four years of undergraduate studies for a Bachelors, two years to earn an Masters, followed by at least four years of work to graduate with a PhD. UWO wants to pay Postdoctoral Fellows $21.57 an hour less than it pays its own graduate student teaching assistants! Even UWOs housekeepers and clerks make a higher hourly wage than postdoctoral employees. These workers make valuable contributions to the university, but surely postdocs shouldnt be paid less. Tell UWO to return to the bargaining table with a fair and reasonable wage offer for its Postdoctoral Associates.

10.93

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E-mail or call UWOs President & Vice-Chancellor Amit Chakma: 519-661-3106 or achakma@uwo.ca

Tell him that postdocs at Western deserve fair wages and working conditions!
CONTACT US: UWO-GTA PSAC Local 610, UWO, Room 1313 Somerville House, London, ON, N6A 3K7 E-mail: psac_organizer@gtaunion.com Phone: 519-661-2111 x80336