The 2024 round of bargaining for a new collective agreement
YUFA's collective agreement expired on April 30, 2024. The Employer served YUFA with notice of intent to bargain on February 29, 2024, and the two parties began bargaining in March 2024.
Information about negotiations is posted below:
2024 Bargaining Team
- John Amanatides: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde
- Mary-Helen Armour: Science and Technology Studies, Science
- Marlon Valencia: English, Glendon College
- Hannah Johnston: Human Resource Management, LA&PS
- Richard Wellen: Social Science, LA&PS (Chief Negotiator)
- Minoo Derayeh: Equity Studies, LA&PS (Equity Officer, Ex Officio)
- Arthur Hilliker: Biology, Science (President, Ex Officio)
Bargaining updates
- Ratification Vote Results (August 26, 2024)
- Bargaining Update: YUFA’s Bargaining Team reaches midnight agreement with the Employer; General Membership Meeting and online ratification vote to take place Thursday August 22 – Monday August 26 (August 20, 2024)
- YUFA revises settlement offer, sends it to the Employer (August 19, 2024 – afternoon)
- Late-night session and press attention bring advances (August 19, 2024)
- YUFA continues to inch towards a renewal collective agreement (August 18, 2024)
- Faculty strike or lockout threatens fall classes at York (August 15, 2024)
- Significant issues remain unresolved in YUFA bargaining (August 13, 2024)
- Slow Progress at the Table (August 12, 2024)
- Bargaining Update: Five days of mediated bargaining scheduled over the coming next (August 9, 2024)
- Bargaining Update: Bargaining continues with new mediator; more dates scheduled through August 18 (August 8, 202)
- Bargaining Update: YUFA and the Employer agree to invite Eli Gedalof as bargaining mediator (August 7, 2024)
- Communications with YUFA members during bargaining
- Petition in Solidarity with YUFA
- Conditional Settlement Offers Exchanged (August 2, 8pm)
- Bargaining Update: Negotiations continue while the Employer has terminated some Special Renewable Contracts (August 1, 2024)
- Strong strike mandate vote shows the Employer that YUFA is united (July 29)
- YUFA Members Vote 92.3% in favour of a strike mandate (July 26)
- Bargaining Update: Employer’s proposals focus on stripping YUFA’s Collective Agreement (July 24)
- "July 23 2024 Special General Members Meeting Reminder" (July 22)
- "Bargaining Update: “No Board” Report Granted by Ministry of Labour while TMU colleagues get a raise of nearly 10% over 3 years" (July 17)
- "Bargaining update: Employer requests no-board" (July 12, 2024)
- "Bargaining update" (July 9, 2024)
- "Outrageous pay offer by employer includes to no increase in salary for this year" (July 5, 2024)
- "Bargaining Update" (July 2, 2024)
- "YUFA puzzled by the Employer's adversarial negotiation strategy" (June 24, 2024)
- "Bargaining update" (May 22, 2024)
- "Expiry of current collective agreement" (April 15, 2024)
- "YUFA begins negotiations for a new collective agreement" (March 28, 2024)
- "YUFA to start bargaining for new collective agreement" (March 7, 2024)
- "YUFA bargaining team announcement" (November 23, 2023)
- "Collective Agreement bargaining" (October 25, 2023)
Information & backgrounders
- Job Action Protocols - Correspondence between YUFA and the Employer:
- Backgrounder: Employer adopts a misleading narrative on the university’s financial position
- Without a Successful Strike Vote, York Faculty are Sitting Ducks (Professor David Doorey)
- Backgrounder: Progress-Through-the-Ranks (PTR)
- Backgrounder: Salary Anomalies
FAQs
Proposals
Statements of Solidarity
- Campus unions call on York to negotiate with YUFA
- YUSA's Rebuttal to York University's financial sustainability claims in York's bargaining update to YUFA on July 3, 2024
Bargaining Support Committee
- To get involved in bargaining mobilization, please see the call out for committee members.
Past bargaining
- To review previous rounds of bargaining, please click here.