{"id":9103,"date":"2012-10-19T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9103"},"modified":"2012-10-19T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:31:44","slug":"cupe-2278-tas-mobilize-for-strike-at-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/10\/cupe-2278-tas-mobilize-for-strike-at-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"CUPE 2278 TA’s Mobilize for Strike at UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching Assistants at the University of British Columbia, represented by CUPE 2278<\/a>, will take a strike vote on Wednesday, 24 October. The University narrowly averted a TA strike in mid April<\/a>\u00a0(80% of the TAs in favour) through legal means of mediation. \u00a0Mediation predictably failed \u00a0and merely deferred job action. \u00a0Seven months later the union is once again mobilizing for a strike. \u00a0The University has fallen back on a comfortable \u00a0excuse that the graduate teaching assistants are\u00a0net zero workers<\/a>, and accordingly has offered 0%, 0%, 1.5%, 1.5% in increases to TA wages for the years\u00a02010-2014. \u00a0As with CUPE 116, the university’s and government\u2019s sentiment has been: \u2018Let them negotiate, let them bargain,\u2019 as long as they remain\u00a0net zero workers<\/a>. \u00a0For the TA’s facing tuition hikes and carrying increasing burdens of responsibility for the University, the\u00a00%, 0%, 1.5%, 1.5% is blatantly unfair. \u00a0This is ever more the conclusion given that\u00a0the University has been merely rolling over contracts for the TA union since 2005.<\/p>\n

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