On April 4th 2012 the PGSS council will be considering a motion proposing a 5-day strike.

This motion follows a March 7th 2012 motion which lead to a 3-day strike.

The strike-vote which took place was inadequately advertised to PGSS members, and was for a period longer than that mentioned in documents provided to the membership prior to the general assembly at which the strike-vote took place.

The strike-vote which effected all PGSS members, and all departments, took place with consultation of only 2.2% of PGSS members, and with no consultation of members of 31 of the PGSS’s 77 member departments.

To provide any future PGSS strikes, including any strike resulting from the motion under consideration on April 4th, with an adequate mandate from the members of the student society we request that future strike votes be ratified online, at least two weeks following the notification of PGSS members through special email, with a voting period of at least 3 days and with a quorum of at least 10% of the societies membership.

Please join us in requesting the PGSS Council pursue these changes in order to allow the actions of the PGSS Council to better reflect the desires of the society’s membership.