You can find a complete copy of the Employer’s Final Package here.

Contract Committee Summary

The TSSU Contract Committee has completed an analysis of the entire package, page by page. That analysis is below. The pages indicated in the analysis correspond to the pages in the PDF. For more discussion on this package, please attend the Special General Meeting:
Wednesday September 16, 2015
11:30am – 1:30pm
MBC 2290
Those who are unable to attend the meeting may leave comments below and the Contract Committee will make our best efforts to respond to them over the coming days.

Executive Summary

SFU’s package contains a whole range of takeaways or cuts to the rights of our members. These cuts hit all sections of our membership, but are primarily targeted at Sessional Instructors and ELC/ITP Instructors. The package would remove rights like right of first refusal for Sessionals without replacing them with any form of seniority and substantially reduce benefits and seniority for ELC/ITP Instructors. In addition, the package imposes new direct costs on TSSU, which would have to be funded out of member dues. In exchange for these cuts, the only real improvement in the package is the fix to the Childcare Fund that would actually get money into the hands of children.
The monetary proposal is the exact same as the Public Sector Employer’s Council (PSEC) Mandate that has been set by the Provincial Government. SFU’s monetary package was tabled at the end of the mediation session without the opportunity for TSSU to table or discuss their monetary proposal or the ability to address where else in the employer’s package there were substantive monetary cuts. There are no improvements to benefits and no solutions to our key core issues for TAs, TMs, Sessional Instructors or ELC/ITP Instructors. TSSU’s Contract Committee recommends rejection of this final offer package from SFU.

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