September 22, 2025
More than 10,000 full-time college support staff, represented by Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union (OPSEU), began a strike across Ontario’s 24 public colleges on September 11. There are picket lines at the Seneca@York Campus located on the Keele campus of York University. YUFA encourages members to express their solidarity with OPSEU members...
September 22, 2025
When a faculty association in Canada is locked out by its employer, or goes on strike, YUFA provides support. Last year, YUFA supported the Association of McGill Professors of Law during their seven-week strike. This year, at Dalhousie University, faculty were locked out for over three weeks by the employer. YUFA,...
September 22, 2025
As detailed in recent YUFA-M messages to members, YUFA is awaiting conciliation meetings on October 3 and 7 to continue our negotiations for a renewal Collective Agreement with our eight accomplished staff members who are represented by CUPE 1281, YUFA sub-unit. Their Collective Agreement expired on May 31, 2025, and they...
September 11, 2025
Team members from the Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN) will share insights from their recent report ‘Navigating Digital Harms: An Investigation of Transphobic Online Hate Against 2SLGBTQIA+ Organizations”. This event is hosted by the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies (IRDL), in collaboration with The Institute for Technoscience & Society (ITS) and The Center for...
September 11, 2025
Colleagues in New Brunswick have organized a March To Ottawa by people from across Canada who willgather on Parliament Hill on Sept 15-19, 2025 for a Vigil for Palestinian children, saying the names of more than 18,000 children who have been killed in Gaza. They will demand an end to...
September 11, 2025
YUFA is conducting a survey of its members focused on workload, teaching, equity and academic freedom. The survey requires approximately 8-10 minutes to complete. Please complete the survey before September 25th. The results will help YUFA to better represent your interests. All responses are confidential and anonymous. You can start...
September 11, 2025
In preparation for negotiating a new Collective Agreement, YUFA is staffing its Bargaining Priorities Committee. The mandate of the committee is to ensure broad membership input into the process of developing the priorities for the next round of collective bargaining, which is expected to commence in the spring of 2027....
September 02, 2025
YUFA has sent a letter to President Lenton objecting to on-going inaccuracies in YFile stories in the description of YUFA members. Specifically, the use of “post-retirement-age full-time faculty” when there is no retirement age at York University, or anywhere in Ontario. The letter also noted that YUFA finds deplorable the...
September 02, 2025
YUFA’s “Welcome-back” luncheon and social will be held at the Orange Snail, Thursday September 4, noon to 2:00pm. All members are invited; new colleagues are particularly welcome. Please register here.
The address is 165 Campus Walk, Stong College basement, room 106.