The Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) is the oldest Teaching Assistant Union in the province of Quebec. As a labour union, AGSEM represents graduate Teaching Assistants, Invigilators, and Course-Based Academic Casuals at McGill. AGSEM has bargained with the McGill administration to produce TA and Invigilator Collective Agreements, which are legal documents that protect student workers.
Recent NewsAGSEM condemns McGill’s removal of the Great White Pine (Haudenosaunee peace tree)
At the 16 November 2023 General Assembly, AGSEM members passed a Motion in solidarity with the Mohawk Mothers/Kahnistensera. In this motion, the assembly voted to stand “with the Kahnistensera in their struggle for dignity, truth, and reconciliation.” Almost a year later, McGill’s morally reprehensible actions remind the McGill community of the pertinence of AGSEM’s position and the need for solidarity with the Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers). On the morning of 17 November 2024, over a hundred members of the McGill community gathered for the planting of a Great White Pine—a powerful symbol of peace for the Kanien’keha:ka, since time immemorial—on “McGill’s” Lower Field.
Unit 3 Newsletter: All course-based Academic Casuals have a union!
Unit 3 Newsletter: All course-based Academic Casuals have a union! All graders, course tutors, undergraduate course assistants, graduate student assistants, student course assistants, course assistants, and graduate teaching fellows now have a union as AGSEM’s Unit 3! What we are able to win in our upcoming negotiations with McGill depends on the work we can accomplish, together. This newsletter has some important information to get involved in your new union.
We're Back and We're Not Going Anywhere - AGSEM Newsletter September 2024
Dear AGSEM members, old and new, We wish you a successful start of the academic year! Our union, the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) is the oldest TA union in Quebec, and represents graduate Teaching Assistants (Unit 1), Invigilators (Unit 2), and Course-Based Academic Casuals (Unit 3) employed at McGill. Sign your AGSEM Membership Form! Sign your membership form for every semester that you work as a Unit 1 TA, Unit 2 invigilator, and/or Unit 3 academic casual.