The Canadian Union of Public Employees has filed a bad faith bargaining complaint against Simon Fraser University, and a hearing before the BC Labour Board has been set for December 17-19.
CUPE said SFU is the only university in British Columbia that hasn’t been able to negotiate a new collective agreement in good faith. CUPE 3338 at SFU is seeking a contract similar to those struck at UBC, UNBC, UVic, Royal Roads and Thompson Rivers.
“The administration clings to the position that CUPE must somehow fix the ailing SFU pension plan ($64.5 million in the hole at last count) before it is willing to negotiate a collective agreement with its CUPE employees,” CUPE 3338 stated on Thursday evening.
CUPE stated that because the SFU pension plan is a multi-party plan, it can only be changed by all involved parties, including ASPA, Poly Party and CUPE, and that all players pulled out of pension talks last week saying they will only continue once collective agreements have been negotiated.
