This morning, your Contract Committee arrived for the start of mediation with mediator Vince Ready at SFU's downtown campus. Before mediation commences, the Contract Committee wanted all our members to have an overview of the last 2 days of bargaining.

Last week, TSSU reaffirmed our commitment to the bargaining process by agreeing not to picket the 50th Anniversary celebrations on Wednesday in exchange for VP Academic Jon Driver taking over as Chief Spokesperson for SFU Administration starting Tuesday Sept 8. Because SFU Administration could not come to the table on Wednesday, they committed to provide proposals via email during the day. SFU Administration did not provide the promised proposals, and came to the table Thursday morning with an all or nothing package of issues designed to sidetrack bargaining.

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