{"id":9141,"date":"2012-10-26T20:53:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T04:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2012-10-27T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T15:56:55","slug":"cupe-2278-tas-give-strike-notice-at-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/10\/cupe-2278-tas-give-strike-notice-at-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"CUPE 2278 TAs Give Strike Notice at UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cupe2278.ca\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">CUPE 2278<\/a> served 72 hour strike notice late this afternoon. \u00a0The TA Union at the University of British Columbia advises to &#8220;expect job action on Monday.&#8221; From all indications, the University has pushed the students and pressed its luck for too long. \u00a0Contracts have been rolled over since 2005, effectively freezing wages for employees who are <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/10\/cupe-2278-tas-have-everything-to-gain-with-strike-vote-at-ubc\" target=\"_blank\">trying to cope against\u00a0rising tuition, supply costs, the cost of living, and housing\u00a0while\u00a0administrators enjoy 5% annual increases<\/a>. CUPE support workers at UBC will stand in solidarity with the graduate students while librarians, faculty members, and undergraduate students are encouraged to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUPE 2278 served 72 hour strike notice late this afternoon. \u00a0The TA Union at the University of British Columbia advises to &#8220;expect job action on Monday.&#8221; From all indications, the University has pushed the students and pressed its luck for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/10\/cupe-2278-tas-give-strike-notice-at-ubc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2257,2265,2270,2271,2272,5038,2273,2275,2276],"tags":[1288960,1288961,1288963],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-rights","category-organizing","category-solidarity","category-strikes","category-strikes-labor-disputes","category-student-movement","category-students","category-unions","category-working-conditions","tag-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-students","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}