BURNABY (NEWS1130) – They conduct tutorials, mark papers, act as distance course teachers and teach on a contract basis.
    
Members of SFU’s Teaching Support Staff Union are taking job action on Monday, two years after contract talks first began.

But Jeff Zurek with the union says the impact on students come Monday should be minimal.

“It’ll be things like down at Harbour Centre where there are continuing instructors, the English Language and Culture, they’ll do an overtime ban. The rest will ‘work to rule’, basically meaning working to the letter of our collective agreement, not working over hours.”

Zurek says members will start with the refusal to do overtime work but, “in our next general membership meeting, the membership could say ‘Okay, let’s hold a complete vote of everyone who wants to walk out.’ It could happen.”

The union says most members earn on average less than $20,000 a year.

It’s also looking for more job stability for instructors that work on contract.