The University of Toronto Education Workers, CUPE Local 3902, is a labour union local representing contract academic workers at the University of Toronto, Victoria University, and the University of St. CUPE 3902 was the first graduate employee union to receive certification by a Labour Relations Board in North America. Prior to the certification by the Ontario Labour Relations Board in 1973, gradu
ate employees in Canada had no representation in negotiating the terms and conditions of work. Today, the union actively represents roughly 11,500 current and recent teaching assistants, course instructors, lecturers, writing instructors, lab demonstrators, invigilators, peer assistants, and postdoctoral fellows across the three U of T campuses.
