GradCOLA
2023 — A Year in Review
January 12, 2024By: Eden Chipperfield & Olivia Sherman TSSU Strikes for improving working conditions, June–October Learn more: The TSSU Strike Vote: A Timeline of Events TSSU members form picket line in labour action SFU’s response to the TSSU picket lines has been poor TSSU hosts BBQ in solidarity with strike BCGEU donates $200,000 to TSSU Strike Fund TSSU engages strike action at Surrey campus TSSU initiates full work stoppage Council Chats: SFSS discusses their lack of response to TSSU strike TSSU members discuss the end of the strike Beginning in June 2023, teaching assistants (TAs) at SFU engaged in a strike following…
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SFU alumni starts petition to increase graduate funding
March 23, 2023By: Anastasia Fast, SFU Student Nicholas Fast is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto and an SFU alumni hoping to change graduate studies funding. He is starting a petition with the goal of providing graduate students with…
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GradCOLA protests against the student funding crisis at SFU
January 23, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer On December 12, 2022, the SFU Graduate Student Society (GSS) and Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) organized a noise demonstration in response to the funding crisis that many students across North America face. Most graduate…
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