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Time is on the side of the SFSS
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy David Dyck The SFSS lockout is in its 10th week now; it’s become something of a status quo around campus. Both sides have held rallies and information sessions, and both have peppered what areas they can — including the pages of this paper — with campaign materials. If this is a war, neither side seems to be gaining any ground. It isn’t a war, though, so more...
CUPE rally targets SFSS board
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By David Dyck Kyle McCloy was one of the many students who crowded into the fountain area next to Convocation Mall for a Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) rally in support of the locked out Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) staff last Tuesday. McCloy, a first-year arts student who hasn’t declared his major, was attracted to the event by the free barbecue more...
The lockout is harming LGBTQ students
| 2:37 am | 1 CommentsBy Susan Chiv The following is an open letter from the entire Out on Campus collective. Dear SFSS Board of Directors, This letter is from the Out on Campus collective, expressing our solidarity with members of CUPE 3338 unit 5, whom you locked out in the summer semester. We are greatly concerned about the negative effects of the continued lockout on Out on Campus more...
CUPE rejects SFSS proposal to end lockout
| 2:51 am | 0 CommentBy David Dyck Since July 10, the unionized staff of the Simon Fraser Student Society have been locked out, pending the successful negotiating of a new collective agreement. A tentative agreement was put to the union last Friday, but it was rejected. As a result, the lockout will continue into its eighth week. According to a statement put out late Friday afternoon by more...
