Contract Committee arrived at our 41st bargaining session yesterday with pens in hand, ready to sign a deal; the Employer, however, did not. Even on the precipice of a full and complete work stoppage, the Employer failed to meaningfully bargain on any of our fundamental issues. As a result, TSSU will begin a full and…
Category: 2022/2023 Bargaining Updates
On Monday September 25, TSSU will meet with the Employer in the Student Union Building (SUB) ballroom at 11AM for our 41st bargaining session. It has been over 500 days since our contract expired in April 2022—that’s over 500 days that the Employer has been withholding increased wages, improved benefits, and enhanced protections that they…
Thank you to every single member who came out for breakfast and bargaining on Monday. We packed the room, and the Employer refused to even enter, citing the fire code. Nobody knows the last time the fire code was taken into account by the Employer when packing our classrooms with students—who often do not even…
Because many new members have joined TSSU this Fall, the Contract Committee and Strike Committee thought we should summarize bargaining, the ongoing strike, and look forward to what’s next. What’s at stake? TSSU is bargaining for three key improvements to our Collective Agreement: (1) a Cost of Living Adjustment, (2) to Stop Wage Theft, and…
Yesterday the Employer finally revealed they have no mandate to bargain on our fundamental issue of upgrading the TA and SI compensation model until after the new VP Academic starts in mid-late August. The Employer has shown that when they want a deal, they can bargain one, as they did with our CUPE 3338 colleagues…
TSSU members packed the bargaining to hear the Employer present a new “proposal package” that was mostly rehashed with a few typo fixes, an updated ELC/ITP instructor proposal they’d been hiding for at least a week, and some movement on mental health coverage. It seems the Employer is starting to feel the heat of strike…
Since we took our strike vote and produced a powerful 91% mandate to strike, the Employer has insisted that we return to bargaining, suggesting they had substantially updated their position. In a gesture of good faith, TSSU scheduled a bargaining date today to receive their latest proposal before serving strike notice. The Employer’s proposal, however,…
After almost 65 hours of bargaining in May, the Employer remained unwilling to budge on the fundamental problems our members need solved. On May 19th, TSSU presented a comprehensive settlement proposal, but at the end of the day the Employer left it on the table, preferring TSSU accept SFU’s proposal that offered less than was…
TSSU has finished the first of two weeks of expedited bargaining with SFU, as required by the Labour Relations Board. Since our last update on Tuesday, we bargained for Teaching Assistants, Education Mentors, Graduate Facilitators in the Student Learning Commons and Media and Maker Commons, and ELC/ITP/ITA instructors. While there has been some minor movement…
We met again with the Employer this week: as per the LRB agreement, the 8th was the last date for them to submit their monetary proposals. Despite the rapid rates of inflation leaving most of our members unable to afford the basic necessities of living, SFU could not even bother to put forward an offer…