METRO VANCOUVER – Support workers at Simon Fraser University and Vancouver Community College are on strike today at campuses in Metro Vancouver, causing transit delays and cancelled classes.
Although SFU plans to remain open during the job action, the university is warning students that some operations and scheduled classes might be affected by the walkout.
Students at VCC however won’t be heading to school today. According to the school’s website, there will be no classes or services at either of Vancouver Community College’s two campuses.
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Classes are scheduled to resume on Thursday.
Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3338, are demanding a new contract and say pickets will be up at SFU’s Burnaby Mountain, Surrey and downtown Vancouver campuses.
Drew Snider, a spokesman for TransLink, says due to the job action, bus service up Burnaby Mountain will travel west on University Drive and around the perminetre, west-to-east.
He said there will be stops outside the tunnel and at the bus loop but students will have to walk in to classes from there.
The union accuses SFU of stalling negotiations even as CUPE locals at the University of B.C., University of Northern B.C., University of Victoria, Royal Roads and Thompson Rivers University have reached tentative deals.
The post-secondary support workers have been without a contract since 2010.
With a file from The Canadian Press.
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