Dear colleagues, Every year, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) hosts Fair Employment Week to raise awareness about precarious employment on campuses and to support local organizing to improve the working conditions of contract faculty. This year’s Fair Employment Week takes place from … Continue reading
Dear colleagues, We are fast approaching the end of 2020 and yet a fair resolution to the pension improvement negotiated by YUFA with the Employer in 2018 is nowhere in sight. As many of you will recall, in 2018, YUFA … Continue reading
Dear colleagues, Since March 2020, the transition to working and teaching remotely due to COVID-19 has meant a significant degree of additional work and other workload concerns for our members. For example, many faculty members and librarians/archivists have had to … Continue reading
Dear colleagues, YUFA is pleased to inform members that we have finally been successful in concluding one element of the Equal Pay Exercise that was negotiated by YUFA in the last round of bargaining. As members may recall, YUFA won … Continue reading
As an expression of our unwavering support for academic freedom, YUFA’s Executive Committee has decided to share the following letter sent from Osgoode Hall Associate Professor Faisal Bhabha to President Rhonda Lenton on August 25, 2020. This letter concerns events that occurred … Continue reading
Dear colleagues, Per Articles 19.19, 19.31, and 19.32 of the YUFA Collective Agreement, YUFA is accepting applications for Education Leaves, Teaching-Learning Development Grants, and Release-Time Teaching Fellowships. The guidelines and applications for each of the leaves, grants, and fellowships are available on the YUFA website here. All applications … Continue reading
YUFA is holding an information session on Tenure and Promotion Wednesday, October 28, 2020 from 1:00-3:00pm. The workshop will take place via Zoom (with details to follow). This session is designed especially for YUFA members (either professorial or teaching stream) … Continue reading
Dear colleagues, The York University Faculty Association (YUFA) extends a warm welcome to all members at the start of this academic year. We would especially like to welcome new colleagues to York, and we hope that, despite the unusual circumstances, … Continue reading
The YUFA Executive Committee is proud to announce the Association’s endorsement of the Joint Toronto Universities’ Faculty Associations Statement, in support of the growing #ScholarStrike movement across North America on Turtle Island. The Ontario College of Art and Design Faculty Association, the Ryerson … Continue reading
Dear Stewards’ Council members, This is to notify you that a vote to ratify three Equity Subcommittee appointments and four joint-committee appointments made by the Executive Committee will begin on Friday, July 24, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. EDT and end on Friday, July 31, 2020 at … Continue reading