Graduate student workers at York University have reached a tentative agreement with their employer and the union is hailing the deal as a "historic victory."

The 3,700 members of CUPE Local 3903 have been on strike since March 3. Over the course of the strike, the membership voted down previous offers proposed by the administration. Their concerns centred around two main issues: (1) they wanted graduate student funding levels indexed to tuition for all current and future students so that funding levels would increase proportionally with the cost of tuition, and (2) they wanted recognition of LGBTQ as an employment equity category.