Enda Brophy

SFU Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed | The Tyee Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years.

The group Contract Worker Justice has been sounding the alarm about poor working conditions at @sfu.ca and heavy-handed management since COVID19 started in 2020.

Metro Vancouver's living wage is $27.85 says BC Society for Policy Solutions, but not all workers earn it.

We've been telling SFU these contractors are bad actors for half a decade now. Admin's claim that food & cleaning services aren't core functions basically amounts to saying these workers are expendable. UBC, UVic, and UBCO employ service workers directly.

When will SFU do the right thing?

SFU Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed | The Tyee Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years.

We've been telling SFU these contractors are bad actors for half a decade. Admin's claim that food & cleaning aren't core functions basically amounts to saying these workers are expendable. UBC/UVic/UBCO employ service workers directly. When will SFU do the right thing? thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

WIN!!! ✊ Just got news SFU has decided NOT to renew its contract w/ @hootsuite.com. Our university made the right choice, choosing not to be associated with a tech company aiding and abetting fascism in the US.

The petition demanding SFU drop its @hootsuite.com contract has almost cracked 100 signatures. SFU community members, please sign and share with your friends and colleagues!!!

For LGBTQ Winter Olympians, visibility matters just as much as medals There's a record-breaking number of out LGBTQ+ athletes competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics, including medal winners for Team USA.

"She posted pictures of her and teammate Alysa Liu with their Olympics team skate gold medals on TikTok with the caption: “They hate to see two woke bitches winning."

[GOLD for Alysa!]
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

A bright, retro-style graphic promoting a NOTICE Coalition book recommendation. At the top, large white text reads “A NOTICE Coalition Book Recommendation” against a turquoise and red background with yellow horizontal lines. In the center, an illustrated book cover is displayed at a slight angle. The cover is blue with bold red semicircle shapes resembling a signal or broadcast icon. The title “Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry” appears in bright yellow text, with “The Capacitor Collective” at the bottom. The background features layered red, yellow, and blue stripes, creating a vibrant, energetic design.

🤩 NOTICE is back with another book rec! 🤩

This book blends research, worker testimony, and political analysis to ask: How is digital work organized? Who benefits? And how can workers build power within these systems? Dive in— pick up your copy today! 🔈

@gleemie.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social

Well this game arrived just in time for Family Day here in BC and we’re all very excited to play it! @maxhaiven.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

SFU folks! Reminder to sign and share this petition. Let's all ties to Canadian companies abetting fascism

signed because FUCK ICE
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SFU Community Petition re Hootsuite To: President Joy Johnson, Interim VP Finance and Administration (Acting) Karamjeet Heer, Provost and VP Academic Dilson Etcheverry Rassier, Associate VP Communications & Marketing Kristin Linklater W...

SFU community members: please sign and share this petition demanding the university terminate its relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company's refusal to cut ties with ICE is abhorrent, and SFU needs to hear from us on this.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpQ...

L’enquête ouvrière du numérique - revue Ouvrage Par le Capacitor Collective — Un essor de la résistance au travail, du syndicalisme et de l’auto-organisation est en train de se produire à plusieurs endroits tout au long de la chaîne de valeur du ca...

Our friends at Revue Ouvrage have translated Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry into French! Special thanks to Sandrine Bell for her work. www.revue-ouvrage.org/lenquete-ouv... @commonnotions.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.

nazi bitches get kicked out of bars

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

Following @mortabasi.bsky.social's lead I’ve written to SFU Communications & Marketing Associate VP asking that we terminate our relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company’s refusal to drop its contract with ICE is utterly offensive and SFU should hear from community members about this.

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) has announced a restructuring of its executive leadership team and the intention to sell multiple properties, as the university tries to address a shortfall of approximately $25 million. The changes are just two of several that are expected in the year ahead, as the university also contends with an upcoming tuition-fee freeze. In late January, MUN announced it will begin selling multiple properties in St. John’s that are “not closely aligned with its academic mission,” as well as its Harlow Campus in the United Kingdom. The announcement came just two weeks after the university announced executive restructuring, which saw it reduce the number of vice-presidents from seven to three.

PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions.

Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3.

Yes we can!

universityaffairs.ca/news/memoria...

How Big Tech Spearheads the US Threat to Canada | The Tyee American digital giants are deeply entrenched here, making the building of Carney’s ‘sovereign cloud’ near impossible.

This @thetyee.ca piece by former @sfucmns.bsky.social prof Donald Gutstein is essential reading on Big Tech's efforts to frustrate the development of an independent cloud in Canada. Read and share: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

More than a dozen Canadian companies – including Thomson Reuters – have done business with ICE, Star analysis reveals Such contracts have become controversial as concerns mount that products or services sold to ICE could be used by the agency in activities that may violate human rights.

Turns out that the publisher of the property law textbook I use, Thomson Reuters, "holds a contract worth up to $22 million (U.S.) that began in May 2021 to provide ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative database subscription". Welp, new book time...
www.thestar.com/business/mor...

A very determined crowd gathering in the pouring rain outside Hootsuite HQ in Vancouver for a Hootsuite Out of ICE protest

Hey @hootsuite.com, how much does a soul go for these days?

I just wrote to our Director of Communications at #SFU asking them to cancel our contract with @hootsuite.com unless they drop their contract with ICE. I've been asking them to stop using X for years, and asked again. You can do the same. #AcademicSky

Join Capacitor Collective as they celebrate the release of NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY, "an exemplary demonstration of how inquiry can function simultaneously as a mode of collective action and a form of critical theory."

2/12/26 in Toronto and 2/13/26 Montreal. Save the dates!

CNV Library just received a new copy after I requested one
Excited to start reading

"... the Capacitor Collective has conducted eleven illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts ... imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement."

#booksky

Common Notions Gift Guide - For the loved ones who know that labor creates all wealth Why We Fear AI The Home as Laboratory Strike While the Needle is Hot Digital Workers' Inquiry

Common Notions gift guide - for all the loved ones who know that labor creates all wealth
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