Media advisory - Students across Canada to picket - Canadian Federation of Students general meeting

OTTAWA, Nov. 23, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Students across Canada will stage a large demonstration at the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) general meeting to protest CFS' refusal to liberate students who wish to leave the CFS.  CFS is currently involved in multiple lawsuits trying to force students who have voted in democratic referenda to leave the CFS to continue paying CFS fees indefinitely.

Since 2009, students at about 15 schools have petitioned to leave the CFS, yet no student organization has successfully left without a lawsuit. CFS has refused to recognize the results of several referenda in which students have voted to leave and claims that these students are still members and owe CFS fees.  Students want to send a clear message to CFS: let us out!

Date:		November 23, 2013
Place:		Best Western Jacques Cartier, 131 Laurier Street, Gatineau QC
Time:		12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Who:		Post-Graduate Students Society of McGill University
		Concordia Student Union
		Graduate Student Association of Concordia University
		Dawson Student Union
		University of Toronto Graduate Student Union
		Capilano Students' Union
		UBC Students' Union - Okanagan

 

SOURCE: POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS' SOCIETY OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY (PGSS)

Jonathan Mooney
McGill's Post-Graduate Student Society (PGSS)
514 686 4770
[email protected]

Sarah Drouin
Dawson Student Union
514 743 4374
[email protected]

Melissa Kate Wheeler
Concordia Student Union
514 432 5125
[email protected]