TSSU is one step closer to a Collective Agreement. Thanks to four days of picket lines, SFU Administration has finally given up on gutting our contract. On Tuesday, October 4, 2023 TSSU Strike and Contract Committees agreed to take one day off picketing, allowing SFU Convocation at Burnaby campus to proceed. In exchange, the Employer…
Our strike action is working!! We have shown the power of our labour by stopping work and going out on the picket lines. We have brought that power to the bargaining table, and we forced the Employer to withdraw substantial concessions to the Collective Agreement that would harm international students, scholarship pay for grad student TAs, and…
Good afternoon TSSU members, The following message contains essential information regarding the state of bargaining between TSSU and SFU, as well as our ongoing strike actions. It is critical that you read it closely and completely. Summary State of bargaining: Strike actions: Picket shifts will be sent soon. These shifts are assigned to every TSSU…
This week nearly 1000 TSSU members, faculty, staff, and community allies shut down the Vancouver and Surrey campuses. The Employer again reacted to our impressive show of solidarity by sending misleading messages to our members and the SFU community. We will respond in more detail to some of their statements in the coming week. What…
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…
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…