Editing Simon Fraser University (section)

===Staff unions===
[[File:Sfu-maggie-benson.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|The Maggie Benston Centre, home to many of the administrative activities at SFU]]
Teaching assistants, tutor markers, sessional instructors, language instructors, Graduate Facilitators and Research Assistants at SFU are unionized. The union, the [[Teaching Support Staff Union]] (TSSU), is independent. Faculty and lecturers are members of the Faculty Association. Staff are members of the [[Canadian Union of Public Employees]] (CUPE), the Administrative and Professional Staff Association (APSA), or Polyparty. A few positions at the university, such as some in Human Resources and senior administrative positions, fall outside the five associations or unions above.

Under the previous president, Andrew Petter, SFU's administration has incurred a number of grievances and bad faith bargaining judgments.<ref name=TyeeWages /><ref name=BadFaith /><ref name=PeakHealthPlan /> During their most recent rounds of bargaining, both the TSSU and CUPE local 3338 resorted to job action, and the BC Labour Relations Board found SFU's administration to be bargaining in bad faith with the CUPE local.<ref name=BadFaith>{{cite news|last1=Reid|first1=Marelle|title=SFU bargaining in bad faith|url=http://www.burnabynow.com/news/sfu-bargaining-in-bad-faith-1.411770|work=[[Burnaby Now]]|date=26 April 2013|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-date=2015-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504032508/http://www.burnabynow.com/news/sfu-bargaining-in-bad-faith-1.411770|url-status=live}}</ref> Conflicts since then include unpaid wages (in Fall 2013, 18% of TSSU members reported that they were not paid on the first payday; by the term's third payday, some members still had not received their wages),<ref name=TyeeWages>{{cite magazine|last1=Sandeborn|first1=Tom|date=2013-06-03|title=TSSU files complaint over unpaid wages|url=https://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/06/03/SFU-TA-Pay/|magazine=[[The Tyee]]|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-date=2015-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320221407/http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/06/03/SFU-TA-Pay/|url-status=live}}</ref> and a health plan, redundant with the provincial health plan available to all international students after their first three months in-province and costing double a prior plan's cost, in which international students are automatically enrolled.<ref name=PeakHealthPlan>{{cite web|last1=Friday|first1=Melissa|title=TSSU files grievance over international student health plan|url=http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/09/tssu-files-grievance-over-international-student-health-plan/|website=[[The Peak (newspaper)|The Peak]]|date=8 September 2014|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-date=2014-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014060419/http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/09/tssu-files-grievance-over-international-student-health-plan/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{clear}}