June 27, 2025
YUFA will once again be marching in the Toronto and York District Labour Council's Annual Labour Day Parade, this year on Monday September 1, 2025.The parade sets off in the morning from Queen and University in downtown Toronto, and ends at the CNE. Please mark your calendars, plan to join your...
June 27, 2025
YUFA members are invited to sign the Petition to save programs at Algoma University in regard to programs that have been “paused” at Algoma University. Since the Spring 2025 semester, admission to five programs at Algoma was abruptly suspended Geography, History, Music, Sociology, and Visual Art. Halting these degree programs will adversely...
June 19, 2025
YUFA has received a message from the Employer that the Equal Pay Exercise (see Appendix L of the Collective Agreement) which was to be completed by July 2 is being postponed yet again, this time until August 30. YUFA is protesting this delay at the Joint Committee on the Administration...
June 19, 2025
If you think you have never met someone transgender, think again. At the store, on the bus, in the classroom, and in the workplace -- trans folks are everywhere. As hate and discrimination rapidly increase in the world, trans folks are in desperate need of good allies. Join this workshop...
June 19, 2025
As part of the settlement of a grievance between YUFA and the Employer, an annual fund of $1M to support research intensification and research administration functions for faculty members, librarians, and archivists was established several years ago. Each eligible YUFA member can receive up to $5,000 annually from the York...
June 10, 2025
Top-down restructuring decisions are affecting us all. The Senate will be considering a program suspension framework at its meeting on June 26. Does it recognize Senate’s legal responsibility for academic decisions? Please plan to attend YUFA’s Town Hall meeting on program suspensions and restructuring, Monday June 23, 1-2 pm. Email...
May 30, 2025
As required by a motion passed by YUFA members at the Special General Membership Meeting on November 19, 2024, YUFA is in the process of divesting from pooled investment funds that hold shares in arms manufacturers and from banks that contribute to military escalation. YUFA has now specifically identified Scotiabank...
May 30, 2025
At its meeting on May 22, despite the absence of assured sources of private-sector funding for new buildings, or even for renovations on the Keele campus to create required labs and classrooms, the York University Senate approved the administration’s proposal for a new School of Medicine. This will be the...