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TSSU Pickets HC and BCGEU gives $200,000 in Strike Fund Support

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…

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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…

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Pickets to start June 15, 7am @ Burnaby Campus

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…

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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…

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2022/2023 Bargaining Updates

Employer asks TSSU to “Dial Down” as we approach 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,…

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2022/2023 Bargaining Updates Job Action

Bargaining stalled; 91% vote to strike

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…

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2022/2023 Bargaining Updates

Employer refuses to address fundamental issues faced by workers

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…

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2022/2023 Bargaining Updates

SFU proposes a Below Cost of Living Adjustment (BCOLA), deep cuts to ISHF coverage

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…

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2022/2023 Bargaining Updates RA Bargaining Update

Living Wage Employer? Not for SFU’s RAs

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…

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2022/2023 Bargaining Updates

A Different Kind of Bargaining: TSSU at the Labour Relations Board

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…