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…
We met with the SFU Administration today for the first session of negotiations for the first Collective Agreement for Research Assistants and Grant Employees (RAs). Our Contract Committee delivered a comprehensive eleven page proposal written from the direction of extensive consultation sessions and surveys with RAs at SFU. Our proposal presented today focuses on the…
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Greetings all, As of 06:15 AM on October 19, 2023, we have reached a tentative agreement renewing the 2022-2025 Collective Agreement between TSSU and SFU. This means that there will be NO picket lines today. Please cease all strike activity. The next step is that you contact your supervisor who can provide direction as to…
TSSU put back a proposal late in the evening that makes real progress on our 5 key demands outlined in detail yesterday: compensation to class sizes for remote work, stopping wage theft, winning a pension plan for instructors, eliminating the most offensive equivalencies, and creating a full teaching year for ELC/ITP/ITA instructors. The ball is…
Greetings members, As noted in yesterday’s bargaining update, TSSU made overtures to close the gap on key monetary issues. We expected the response from the Employer’s bargaining team at 2PM today. Despite this, we have not yet received a response from the Employer on any of our proposals (which are detailed below). With our members…
TSSU and the Employer met for mediation today. The mediator indicated that there is enough possibility of getting to a deal, for both sides, to continue with the mediation process Sunday at noon. The Employer’s bargaining team made a commitment that they would provide a full response to our key monetary proposals with supporting costing…
Today TSSU met with the Employer’s bargaining team for what was supposed to be the 45th bargaining session to build momentum heading into mediation tomorrow morning. When they came into the room, however, the Employer tabled a package of proposals that did not respond to any of the work done yesterday, with one small exception. Then, the…
We are writing to you live from the picket line at Burnaby campus, which is holding strong through wind and rain, with an update on bargaining. Last week we successfully converted the leverage built through picketing into real progress at the bargaining table, and the trend continues this week, again thanks to our work stoppage and…
TSSU Members, We returned to bargaining today and presented an updated monetary package of improvements to benefits, wages increases, TA wage adjustment based on UBC’s rates, paid maternity/parental leave, and pension for instructors. The Employer finally signed off on a package of articles (Preamble – Article 9 of the collective agreement) that have been almost…
Oct. 6, 2023 — As members of the National Basketball Players Association, Toronto Raptors players have donated $10,000 to the Teaching Support Staff Union’s strike fund, in support of their ongoing work stoppage at Simon Fraser University (SFU). “The members of the NBPA stand in solidarity with members of Simon Fraser University’s Teaching Support Staff…
We are picketing Vancouver campuses tomorrow. Picket assignments will be the same as those originally assigned to you for the Thursday, Oct 5, 2023 picket. For example, if you were assigned 10:00am-2:00pm for Thursday in Burnaby, your picket shift for Vancouver is 10:00am-2:00pm.
