SFU teaching assistants, instructors and support staff commence strike
The Teaching Support Staff Union has been without a contract for more than a year, since its collective agreement expired in April 2022.
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The Teaching Support Staff Union has been without a contract for more than a year, since its collective agreement expired in April 2022.
The union represents more than 3,500 workers, who teach and conduct research at Simon Fraser University but aren’t faculty, including research and teaching assistants.
The union, Unifor Local 4276, said its workers at the hotel held a strike vote Friday night, which saw an overwhelming 97 per cent of members vote in favour of job action.
Only weeks after betraying the historic strike of 48,000 academic workers at the University of California, the United Auto Workers is assisting UC in collecting attestation payback forms to retroactively dock wages.
Landmark wage increase for UC student workers still keep some below poverty line. 38% of student employees and 32% of student researchers voted no on contract due to inadequate wages