In a province already embroiled in an acrimonious battle with its teachers union, The University of British Columbia is facing strike votes from two of its three collective bargaining units, with the third feeling more and more marginalized by the BC government and its employers. Meanwhile, the highest paid employees at the University have been allotted wage increases, merit pay and performance bonuses totalling $9-million.

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The Alma Mater Society (AMS), the student body of the University of British Columbia (UBC), is up in arms over a progressive move made by two leaders of the council.

In 2009, AMS President Blake Frederick and Vice President External Tim Chu made an official complaint to the United Nations regarding rising tuition costs at the university. Such hikes, they argue, breach human rights by making UBC, supposedly a public institution, inaccessible for much of the population. Frederick and Chu claim that the British Columbian and federal governments must be held accountable for the breach.