Topic summary
2018 York University strike

Rhonda Lenton
(President)
Barry Miller
(Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations)
Leanne DeFilippis
(Executive Director of Faculty Relations)
Simon Mortimer
(Head Lawyer for York University)
Devin Lefebvre
(Chairperson)
Hossein Banitabaei
(Vice-President of Unit 1)
The 2018 York University strike was a strike by CUPE Local 3903, the union representing contract professors, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University. At 143 days long it is the longest strike in the post-secondary sector in Canadian history, surpassing the previous record of the 1976 Laval University 108-day strike. It ended on July 25, when the Ontario Legislature passed the Urgent Priorities Act back-to-work legislation.