So, you may have heard that the TAs, GAAs, and EIs voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike in their strike vote a few weeks ago. But if this and this are anything to go by, y'all have some questions about the potential strike and what it would mean to you as a student, employee, or member.
Tomorrow, between 1 and 4pm, President Jessica Wolf (u/JessCUPE2278), Component 1 Chair Josh Bradbury (u/JoshCUPE2278), Grievance Officer Keegan Parkhurst (u/KeeganCUPE2278), and Recording Secretary Braedon Pauzé (u/BraedonCUPE2278) will be stopping by to answer your questions.
This thread will be used for tomorrow's AMA, so please Ask Us Anything below.
SOME BACKGROUND
On September 28th, the local announced that over 1500 members voted in the Strike Vote with 95.4% of them voting in favour of a strike. While this provides the local with the authorization to call for job action, it does not necessarily mean that a strike will be occurring.
The pressure exerted by such an emphatic, overwhelming mandate has resulted in our mediation dates with UBC being moved forward to October 7th and October 8th.
What are we negotiating for? Our main bargaining priorities are:
Employer-paid healthcare.
Setting fair GAA wages.
Ending minimum funding clawbacks.
Maintaining workload and class sizes.
Paid breaks for workers at the Centre for Accessibility.
Protections for academic freedom.
These priorities are aimed at maintaining the quality of undergraduate education here at UBC while meaningfully improving the lives of our members.
We're looking forward to talking with you tomorrow.
EDIT: Office hours are officially open! We're looking forward to chatting with y'all 'til 4pm!
EDIT II (4:00 p.m.): Office hours are officially closed! Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by! If you have any further questions reach out to a steward or a member of the executive!
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Bro, this is so annoying. Where are the UBC photography posts? None of those are up anymore. No one’s posting those anymore. All I see is this like dating stuff over and over and over and over again. It’s getting a bit annoying. If you need someone to date at this point, man, they should just start a club called UBC Dating Club or something. But the whole point is asking or making these stories on Reddit is not going to lead to you finding your love. The only way you’re going to find it is I don’t know because I don’t have any love in my life either, but it’s definitely not on UBC Reddit, and that is clear.
what the fuck 😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂 been studying for hours every day for the past two weeks. put all my courses on the back burner for this. felt so confident with those mickey mouse practice midterms, finished each of them in under 40 mins and scored 90+ on both.
currently spiraling that was one of the hardest exams i’ve ever written and holy fuck was it bad. even the group portion…. my group got a lot of stuff wrong
Hi everyone, I am very sorry to say this here, but rather just venting at night, I also wanna seek for some advice. I’ve been studying for the whole past week, and I check the answer key today and I approximately get a 40%-50% (Well, if lucky I will get above 50). I don’t know how to recover from this. I did all the practice, come to class regularly and take notes, review it once a week. Two practice midterms I both score above 80s/90s and finish in time. I also had an exam from another class which I finish the practice test with 95 and 100, but turns out I only got 58%. Since first year, every single class I study it’s been like this. I originally thought there’s something wrong with my methods, but I tried a multiple time it just doesn’t work. I don’t know how to get good grades on exam anymore. I’ve been crying since midterm finish and don’t know how to become good at test anymore, maybe never. Any advice is appreciated, thank you very much.
my best friend got one and now she completely neglects me and spends all her time with her boyfriend. Please don’t be one of these people it’s heartbreaking seeing someone do this to you
edit: there’s nothing wrong with having a s/o you guys. However removing every person in your life for one singular person is selfish, especially if it is people who have been there for you even before your s/o. Never forget what others have done for you. I’m grateful for having this phase when i was 16 as i know how to balance connections now, and i know how quickly relationships can turn! And trust me when that happens you will definitely need your friends again
I understand there’s midterms and whatnot, but the amount of people who come to school (whilst coughing up a lung) is insane. Some of us have health issues and can’t afford to get sick. And some of y’all don’t even wear a mask, like, are you intentionally trying to spread your germs?
My companion of 19 years has deteriorated significantly and upon visiting the vet today, they recommended euthanizing her to preserve her quality of life and prevent suffering. As such, my family has decided to put her to sleep soon (of course, after planning to pamper her for the foreseeable future).
Even the prospect of this news has impacted me significantly, but especially after the fact, I just know I’m going to be in a terrible mental state. I’ve already cried for a few hours.
I don’t have any major assignments of exams coming up, a few essays here and there, but I’m not sure if I would even be able to attend class in my state of grief.
Do you think this would be reason enough for academic concession on compassionate grounds?
Somebody please put me the method to studying for the physics 131 midterm tahts coming up soon, are there any resources to get access to the previous midterms? Does anybody have the previous midterms? Please bro
I LOVE THEM. but why is there a single turkey slice in a $13 sandwich… like pleaseee im not even exaggerating there was a single turkey slice in my whole sandwich. i feel like they never used to be like that??
I am a commuter and I am wondering in what study spaces is it appropriate/not appropriate to eat.
I can't focus in busy places like cafes or the nest so I like to find faculty buildings, classrooms and libraries. However when it's super quiet it feels like it is not appropriate to be eating... Are there certain places where it's 100% not allowed?
I'm freaking out because I'm a transfer student, and so by habit I may have accidentally put down my old institution's student id on my first two midterms this year. I've already emailed the professor and the TAs. Will I be getting a zero? This is so brutal I hope that isn't the case.
