UBC Graduate Students Move Toward Aggressive Bargaining

by Stephen Petrina on February 27, 2012

University of British Columbia Graduate Students Local CUPE 2278, still negotiating the extension of the 2006-2010 Agreement, resolved that they are “tired of struggling year after year against rising inflation and tuition costs while some UBC employees are financially protected from these concerns…. Have we set a date for a strike vote? No. Has there been an official strike vote yet? No. Have we been given the mandate to stop taking crap and use every tool available to us to get taken seriously at the table? You better believe it.”  Those in support of bargaining agency will recall the courageous 2278 strike of 2003.

See CUPE 2278 UBC Graduate Students and Ubyssey for more.