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…
Category: Strike Updates
Last Thursday we picketed Harbour Centre campus while the SFU Board of Governors was meeting. A TSSU delegation spoke at the start of the Board of Governors and was joined by BCGEU Secretary-Treasurer Paul Finch, who unequivocally delivered a message that one of the largest unions in the province would not allow the SFU executive…
Categories
Picket lines a huge success
Last Wednesday, the Employer threatened to cut all of our members’ extended health benefits, as well as International Student Health Fee coverage, in retaliation for only three days of mild strike actions. In response to this extortionate tactic, TSSU members came out in full force on picket lines the very next day to shut down…
TSSU is escalating strike action to pickets on Thursday, June 15 starting at 7am and continuing through the day. This action is in response to SFU taking away our health benefits, a move to undermine our strike just as it begins. It is time to show the employer that we will not accept their treatment of the…
Categories
Strike Action has Commenced
Strike action started at 11:21 am on Monday June 12, and is ongoing, see below for details and important updates. Over the past 24 hours, members teaching classes used class time to explain what’s going on to their students. That simple and authorized strike action has already infuriated some high-ranking administration officials, but it is…