There are no no classes today at the various campuses of Vancouver Community College and BCIT.
That's because support staff at VCC and faculty at BCIT are staging a one-day strike to back their contract demands for more money.
The weather is miserable as members walk a picket line outside the downtown Vancouver campuses of BCIT and VCC.
Joan Walker at the BCIT campus says they are asking for "2 and 2 like the other public service employees and other educational institutions. But my understanding is that we've been offered nothing, zero and zero, and as a faculty we've been asked to find our own savings from within and we can't, we're already working to our max and under-resourced as it is."
A similar scene is playing out at Vancouver Community College, but those members are just a single percentage point apart at the table.
Meanwhile, at Simon Fraser University, support staff there are starting a week of job action with a morning rally outside the W.A.C. Bennett Library.