Photograph By Mark Rogers and Murray Mitchell
The first day of strike action by support staff at Thompson Rivers University Thursday ended with a mid-campus rally that drew a crowd of about 150 unionized workers and supporters.
Picket lines went up around the empty facilities building, and later around the Clocktower building that mainly houses administrative staff, said Lois Rugg, president of CUPE 4879 which represents 600 TRU support workers.
Those two sites were chosen because they weren t expected to disrupt classes, she said.
Members of TRU s student union and faculty association also joined in, as did representatives from the United Steel Workers and B.C. Government and Service Employees Union.
The union picked on an affluent school and paid the price. But what about ones without clout?
Sacramento Bee 8 hrs ago Marcos Bretón, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 28 People often wonder why the culture within the Sacramento City Unified School District is so relentlessly toxic. As if on cue, one of the district s labor partners crossed about 27 lines of appropriate behavior and got pummeled for it last week when the union angered the wrong parents, at the wrong school.
In doing so, a ridiculously egregious situation demonstrated the wide divide between which parents and students get heard and which don t. It demonstrated that affluent parents look out for their affluent kids at SCUSD. But the majority of kids in the district Black, brown, Asian, homeless kids living at the poverty line or below are not so lucky.
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