Register for 40th Anniversary Events Now!

We're just a month away from the 40th Anniversary weekend celebration and are excited to announce that registration is now available for the three main weekend events! Make sure to register early to guarantee your spot and reserve your drink tickets! Watch for more details coming soon.

40th Kickoff: December 7@ Club Ilia. Pasta dinner, drinks, trivia! Register for Kickoff

40th Labour School: December 8@ SFU Harbour Centre (Joseph and Rosalie Segal Room). Workshops, panels, walking tour (plus coffee!) Register for Labour School

40th Party: December 8@ Lost + Found Cafe. Tacos, drinks, cake, piñata, music! Register for Party

40th Anniversary website launched!

In 2018, TSSU celebrates 40 years of certification. We were first certified as a union in 1978, and we have been an independent, feminist, non-hierarchical, and directly democratic organization ever since. In celebration of our history and our all of our members' hard work, we're eagerly counting down to December 7th and 8th, the weekend of TSSU's 40th Anniversary Celebration!

We have a lot of exciting events planned, and we're inviting all TSSU members, past and present, to take part. To kickoff the weekend, we're hosting dinner, drinks, and trivia at Club Ilia on Friday, December 7th. Food and drinks are on us, but boning up on your trivia skills is on you. Let us know you're coming HERE.

Then, on Saturday, December 8th, we're moving downtown to SFU Harbour Centre for the TSSU 40th Anniversary Labour School. There's going to be interactive workshops, panels, walking tours, and more, featuring labour organizers and activists from across the Lower Mainland. Lunch and snacks will be provided, and it's absolutely free. Register for the labour school HERE.

Finally, we'll be capping off our celebration with a huge 40th Birthday Party at Lost & Found Cafe, featuring a taco dinner, drinks, cake, piñata, music, and prizes. All members who attend receive dinner, cake, and one free drink each. RSVP for the party HERE. If you are a past TSSU member or collaborator and wish to attend, please email us at 40th@tssu.ca.

TSSU has been a vital voice for teachers at SFU for four decades now, and we want everybody who has been a part of this experience to celebrate with us. And don't forget to submit your piece to TSSU's special collection, Equity, Security, Solidarity, Action: Reflection and Celebration of TSSU at 40. We want to publish your essays, drawings, collages, graphic design pieces, comics, stories, plays, poems, etc. to help our community recognize, critique, and appreciate the foundations of our union, look forward to TSSU's future, and provide a resource for future members and activists.

40th Anniversary Special Collection: Equity, Security, Solidarity, Action! Call for Submissions

Equity, security, solidarity, action: Reflection and celebration of TSSU at 40

To celebrate TSSU’s 40th anniversary, all TSSU members, past and present, are invited to prepare a submission for the special collection Equity, security, solidarity, action: Reflection and celebration of TSSU at 40. Our goal is to publish a collection of pieces—drawings, collages, graphic design pieces, comics, essays, stories, plays, poems, etc.—to help our community recognize, critique and appreciate the foundations of our union, look forward to TSSU’s future, and provide a resource for future members and activists. We aim to showcase the variety of work, thought, and creativity within our community through this lens of past, present, and future. Contributions may be related, but are not limited to, the following themes: equity, security, solidarity, action.

You may wish to address one of the following sub-themes in your submission:

Class struggle: unity and antagonism
Organizing labour in universities
Student activism and labour activism
Academic labour (past, present, and future)
Feminist perspectives on labour and academia
Anti-racist perspectives on labour and academia
Settler colonialism at SFU
Building collective power
TSSU and the labour movement
Lessons learned in the labour movement
Memories and experiences of TSSU
Challenges faced by academic workers
Working, uniting, and fighting for a better collective agreement
What you gained as a member of TSSU

Preparing your submission:

Deadline for submissions is October 31, 2018
Only one submission accepted per member
To be able to include as many submissions as possible, please keep your submission to a maximum of 5 pages
You may format your submission as you see fit. However, please keep in mind that the anticipated size of the volume will be 100 pages
All submissions will be reviewed for relevance to collection themes and goals
The number of pieces included in the collection will depend on the number of total submissions received and the size of each submission
Before collection printing, all contributors will be given an opportunity to review a proof copy of the collection and provide comments regarding the presentation of their submission as well as make any necessary edits
Submissions unrelated to the topic of the collection will not be accepted
Submissions not in keeping with, or going against, TSSU’s goals and objectives will not be accepted
Please complete the following google form to register your submission:https://goo.gl/forms/Is7siNoG68CWEtsK2 . We encourage you to submit your contribution to using the form as well; however, if the nature of your submission precludes this, please note this on the submission form and contact trustee@tssu.ca to make other arrangements

Inclusion of your submission in this volume does not preclude publication elsewhere. Copyright for each submission remains with the original copyright holder