On December 13th the bargaining committee met with the employer for the last time before the new year.  We discussed our language proposals around Tutor Markers and conditional upon enrollment appointments.  We managed this semester to finish the initial explanation of all our proposals and expect to hear back from the employer in the new year.

Setting dates for the next semester, however, poses a serious problem to our progress.  The employer is discriminating against our continuing instructors by refusing to pay for release time at the bargaining table, despite having settled on collective agreement language that allows for release time in the last round of negotiations.  These elected members of the bargaining committee are an important element of TSSU's continuity because they participated in the last round of negotiations.  At this time we have not been able to agree on meeting dates for January.