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…
Category: 2022/2023 Bargaining Updates
Dear TSSU members, Your Contract Committee has met with the Employer in bargaining sessions every day this week to fulfill the terms of the settlement at the Labour Relations Board (LRB). In spite of SFU’s desperate attempts to delay at all costs, the resounding success of our strike vote has forced the Employer to finally…
The results could not have been clearer. In March, 1049 TSSU members came out to vote, in person, and 93.613% of them voted in favour of a strike. 646 of these voters have a current appointment as a Teaching Assistant or one of the other categories recognized by SFU and the Labour Board as covered…
TSSU members, Over the last weeks our membership has come together and announced, loud and clear, that enough is enough. With a 94% mandate from over 1000 members, our strike vote was an overwhelming success. At the SGM on Wednesday, TSSU unanimously ratified this emphatic vote and formed a Strike Committee. Meanwhile, SFU has requested…
The votes have been counted and TSSU members have decided with a 94 percent mandate to strike, with a total of 982 yes votes. The success of this vote was made possible by over 1000 members who showed up to cast a ballot, with dozens of volunteers who knocked on doors, worked shifts at the polls,…
Last week, Contract Committee called a Special General Membership Meeting (SGM) to seek guidance from the membership on how to proceed with bargaining, given the concessions demanded by the Employer as well as their prolonged stalling tactics. At a packed SGM, our membership unanimously voted to cancel the remaining bargaining sessions for March and instead hold a…
TSSU had two more bargaining sessions with the Employer last week, on Wednesday the 15th and Thursday the 16th. At these sessions we continued to discuss proposed changes to the articles of the Collective Agreement concerning Sessional Instructors and Teaching Assistants, but little progress was made. The Employer continues to stall. Concerning Teaching Assistants, the…
With another three bargaining sessions gone by this week, the Employer still does not have a monetary proposal for RAs, and responses on other outstanding issues remain inconsequential. To avoid tabling monetary proposals the Employer used the same excuse they have been making for over a year—that they are still discussing it internally over email.…
Thank you to all the members that attended bargaining this week. On February 1 we packed the room, filling every seat and showing our collective power. On both days, the employer offered virtually no proposals or counter-proposals, instead using the time to correct typos and make insignificant changes—wasting everyone’s time and money. In opening remarks,…
January 24th’s planned bargaining session was canceled by the Employer as their outsourced spokesperson’s flight from Victoria to Vancouver was delayed due to weather. This is not the first time that bargaining has been delayed or canceled due the Employer’s travel woes. To try and make up for the lost time, TSSU suggested that bargaining…