New Student Employee Union Gets Wage Increase Mayumi Izumi (she/her) // Contributor Rachel Lu (She/Her) // Illustrator Organizers at Capilano University have scored a major win for student employees after…
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Stalled Negotiations for Unionized Student Employee Wages
The MoveUP union and Capilano University fail to find common ground to start negotiations that would address the urgent issue of student employees’ stagnant wages Laura Morales (she/her) // Co-Editor-In-Chief…
How janitorial work became so excruciatingly inseparable from the Filipino-Canadian identity
How janitorial work became so excruciatingly inseparable from the Filipino-Canadian identity The 29 Capilano University cleaners won their campaign, but for the 22 who are Filipino, raising wages and health...
Beating around the bush: You are not a robot
Beating around the bush You are not a robot Freya Wasteneys // Columnist Working in small, remote bush camps can be an interesting social experiment. As a work environment, it…
Beating around the bush: Separating success from self-worth
Beating around the bush Learning to separate success from self-worth Freya Wasteneys // Columnist Call me deluded, but I’ve never been particularly good at estimating my abilities. I tend to…
Beating around the bush: Shut up and plant
BEATING AROUND THE BUSH Shut up and plant FREYA WASTENEYS // COLUMNIST Many rumours exist about tree-planting, and most of them are true. There are people who can make $30,000…
CapU will consider including a living wage for workers in 2030 Master Plan
SEIU 2 responds to President Dangerfield’s “non-response” TIA KUTSCHERA FOX // OPINIONS EDITOR Last year, the cleaning staff at Capilano University applied to the Labour Board for the right to…
Beating around the bush: Blank of all trades
Beating around the bush Blank of all trades FREYA WASTENEYS // COLUMNIST Photo c/o Daria Nepriakhina Do you ever dread the annual holiday question period from extended family and acquaintances?…
Opinions: Fast fashion is sew shady
Zara employees attempt to reach out to the world through hidden tags Brett Young // Contributor In the US, over 10.5 million tons of clothes are found in landfills every…