Each month, our advocates answer your questions about workplace challenges, the AD 10 policies, and how they’re applied. Questions? Submit them anonymously here. These questions will be answered in a monthly advocacy corner issue. For an immediate answer, please contact APSA.
Quiet bullying or indirect aggression at work is hostile behaviour that harms another person without the aggressor being obvious. Some of the ways that this can occur is through reputational harm, like gossip, otherwise known as relational aggression. Relational aggression can be either a covert or overt way of hurting or damaging others due to relationships or group exclusion.
Hybrid Work and Accountability
There are times in my role when I find myself still startled by apparent institutional thinking.
Let me explain.
March Update
It has been a busy month for APSA. Here are some of the key updates over the past few weeks:
Hello APSA Members,
You're invited to attend Conversations with the Board — Spring edition. Come by for a coffee and chat with an APSA board member at your campus. We'd love to discuss your work life and how APSA can help you.
Tuesday, April 15, from 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. at Burnaby Campus, Room HAL 114
Recently past Conversations:
Tuesday, February 25, from 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. at Harbour Centre at Vancouver Campus, Room 2250
Tuesday, March 4, from 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. at Surrey Campus, Room SRYC 2746
As SFU's staff and faculty hiring freeze persists and APSA positions continue to be eliminated, some troubling issues surround SFU's people-centred approach in which these position eliminations are conducted.
While there are HR Strategic Business Partners who conduct these meetings with the care and compassion necessary for the circumstances, there are far too many instances where our members feel like SFU’s treatment of them is more punitive and less like they were valuable employees whose positions had to be eliminated due to a budget crisis.
February Update
Transparency and SFU’s Budget
On January 23, 2025, the SFU Provost office announced the closure of the Vancity Office of Community Engagement and SFU’s Office of Community Engagement, eliminating several key positions in those programs.
SFU has apparently made this decision without a well-communicated plan or approval by the Board of Governors. It was deeply disappointing to many of SFU’s staff and students that SFU did not present solutions on how the work of these vital offices, which evidently continues, will be supported.