Contract workers at Simon Fraser University treated as second class
These conditions are not normal. British Columbia’s two other large research universities operate their food and cleaning services in-house and treat workers. The University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria pay food and cleaning workers more, give them more sick and vacation days, provide better health and dental benefits, and top up parental employment insurance, unlike SFU.
UBC and Victoria don’t lay off food workers between school terms, and they avoided mass layoffs during the pandemic by assigning alternative work.by denying them access to the library, barring their children from on-campus daycare and refusing to grant them the same tuition discounts enjoyed by faculty members.
When the school surveyed faculty and staff in 2019 to measure its progress on equity, diversity and inclusion using a “,” it excluded food and cleaning workers, the majority of whom are women of colour, because they were not employees. It was just another reminder that they literally don’t count. Contract Worker Justice @SFU, a growing coalition of workers, union activists, students, staff and faculty, is demanding SFU president Joy Johnson employ support workers directly.Last year, the university hired an outside firm to study the prospect of in-sourcing contract workers.
Dr. Johnson has also said SFU would also consider improving “educational opportunities” and access to campus facilities, and finding “other ways to
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