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This history of the Teaching Support Staff Union is timely since, as TSSU's parent, the Association of University and College Employees, has now existed for twenty years. TSSU is the last remaining independent local of AUCE. though several other locals have joined mainstream unions. The three essays included describe three different eras in the history of AUCE and TSSU, but some of the tensions found in the organization have remained the same over time. For twenty years AUCE has represented, at least to the activists involved in it, an intersection between feminism and trade unionism in British Columbia. Because the principle of local control over union decisions rather than joining a larger union hierarchy has been consistently maintained, AUCE and TSSU have frequently operated from a locally-defined idealistic feminist standpoint. The tensions, broadly painted, have been between feminists and traditional trade unionists (most often male).... --Introduction

OCLC: 30069415