Six student associations vote to strike

Six of Concordia’s student associations including one faculty voted to join the province-wide strike against rising tuition rates.

The School of Community and Public Affairs, Political Science, Geography, Philosophy, Women’s Studies and the entire Fine Arts faculty voted to join the 80,000 students already on strike throughout Quebec. The Women’s Studies Association made history voting to be the first department to start striking this morning while the other associations are set to start sometime next week.

That brings the total number of students on strike at Concordia to 6,300 according to the student Union.  The CSU will be holding its own vote next Wednesday on a proposed four-day strike starting March 26.