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The Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU)
Independent, Non-hierarchical, Directly Democratic and Feminist Since 1978
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GENERAL
MEMBERSHIP
MEETINGS
Burnaby: Wednesday, January 22, 11:30 - 1:30 pm, WMC 2220
Vancouver: Tuesday, February 25, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, HC 7000
Surrey: Thursday, March 26, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, SUR 5080
STEWARDS
MEETINGS
Vancouver: Thursday, January 16, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, HC 1520
Surrey: Wednesday, February 12, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, SUR 2740
Burnaby: Tuesday, March 10, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, TBD
BARGAINING
SESSIONS
Thursday, February 13th, 9:30am - 4:30pm, EDUC 8504, Burnaby
Wednesday, February 19th, 9:00am - 12:00pm, AQ 5039, Burnaby
Thursday, February 20th, 9:00am - 12:00pm, AQ 5039, Burnaby
In the Spotlight
SSJC and Contract Committee Joint Letter of Solidarity with UCSC Strikers
February 21, 2020From: Solidarity and Social Justice Committee (SSJC) and Contract Committee (CC), Teaching Support Staff Union. Today, striking graduate workers at the University of California – Santa Cruz (UCSC) are under police threat for demanding that UCSC Administration match their wages to the rising cost of living. At UCSC, wages have not “fallen behind” cost of living, they have been eaten by it. As reported by Salon, “graduate student teaching assistants at UCSC make $2,434 a month before taxes, for only nine months of the year. The median monthly rent in Santa Cruz County is $1,685.” The strikers’ demand an increase of $1,412 to every graduate student regardless of residence, visa, documentation, employment, or funding status and a promise that Administration will
Events
Sessional Round Table & Social!
2020-02-20
Please join other sessional instructors for a time of connecting and discussion around the latest bargaining updates and job conditions! Let’s hear from each other and how we can work together for a better collective agreement more job security! TSSU works and organizes on the unceded territories of the Musqueum, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Kwikwetlem, Katzie, Kwantlen, Qayqayt, and Stó:lo Nations.______________________________________Accessibility Information:Location: Club Ilia, SFU Burnaby – TSSU provides childcare subsidy for members to attend TSSU event. To apply: http://www.tssu.ca/childcare/ – For Non-student TSSU members (non-upass holders), TSSU has a trial travel subsidy program that reimburses $5 per trip for members who go to union events and committee meetings. To apply: http://www.tssu.ca/2019/04/09/tssu-trial-travel-subsidy-april-aug-2019/ – Accessible and gendered washrooms available on the same floor.
Vancouver Office Opening Party Board Game Night!
2020-02-27
Thursday, February 275:30 – 7pmHC 7300 (Our New Office!) We have a new home base in Vancouver sharing with CUPE 3338 and APSA!! Please join us at the opening of the TSSU Vancouver Office with decorating, board games, refreshments and each other!! 🙂 The party starts at 5:30 pm but please feel free to drop off a decoration you’d like to put in the office anytime of the day! The office will be open at least once a week (mostly Wed), where all members can come by to ask question, get updates on bargaining, find information and forms, get some love and more! This is a space for all TSSU members. Please don’t be shy to come by and say
In the News
SSJC and Contract Committee Joint Letter of Solidarity with UCSC Strikers
February 21, 2020From: Solidarity and Social Justice Committee (SSJC) and Contract Committee (CC), Teaching Support Staff Union. Today, striking graduate workers at the University of California – Santa Cruz (UCSC) are under police threat for demanding that UCSC Administration match their wages to the rising cost of living. At UCSC, wages have not “fallen behind” cost of living, they have been eaten by it. As reported by Salon, “graduate student teaching assistants at UCSC make $2,434 a month before taxes, for only nine months of the year. The median monthly rent in Santa Cruz County is $1,685.” The strikers’ demand an increase of $1,412 to every graduate student regardless of residence, visa, documentation, employment, or funding status and a promise that Administration will
SSJC Letter of Solidarity with AGSEM’s Campaign to Unionize Teaching Support Workers at McGill University
February 4, 2020SSJC Letter of Solidarity with AGSEM’s Campaign to Unionize Teaching Support Workers at McGill University The Solidarity & Social Justice Committee of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) stands in solidarity with The Association for Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) in their campaign to unionize teaching support workers at McGill University. As unionized workers ourselves we recognize the vital importance of unions in academia, where precariousness, insecurity, and exploitation run rampant. A union would entitle teaching support workers to basic protections and rights, advocacy and grievance procedures, and protections for medical and parental leave, among other important benefits. We further recognize the uneven unionization currently in place at McGill – with some teaching support workers enjoying unionization while others
SSJC Letter to Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau re: Attacks on Indigenous Sovereignty at Wet’suwet’en
February 7, 2020Premier Horgan and Prime Minister Trudeau: On behalf of the members of the Teaching Support Staff Union’s (TSSU) Solidarity and Social Justice Committee, we write to express condemnation of your governments’ attack on Indigenous sovereignty and your own legislation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in regards to the Unist’ot’en camp on Wet’suwet’en territory. As an organisation dedicated to upholding fairness and rights, we see your (in)actions on this matter as a violation of not Canadian and Wet’suwet’en law, but all of the statements you have made regarding the building of equality for Indigenous communities and commitments to reconciliation. Furthermore, Premier Horgan, your (in)actions on this matter are in direct violation of your words put
Statement of Condemnation — Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019
January 30, 2020The General Membership of the Teaching Support Staff Union condemns India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019. This legislation expedites Indian citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians fleeing religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, if they moved to India before 2014. However, it does not extend the same protection to Muslims and other persecuted minority sects. (1) The CAA presents an Islamophobic narrative and discrimination based on religion, directly contradicting the Indian constitution’s commitment to a secular republic. (2) The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is concerned that this legislation is “fundamentally discriminatory” against Muslim people, and allows for discrimination against atheists and members of other religious groups. The Commissioner stated that these amendments “appear
Since 1978
The Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU)
An Independent, Non-Hierarchical Feminist Labour Union