August 09, 2022
The Joint Subcommittee on Benefits has representatives from YUFA and the Employer and is tasked with addressing benefits issues. There are various important matters on its agenda, but there are vacancies on the YUFA side of the Subcommittee. We are calling on members to submit their nominations for this committee....
August 09, 2022
The new SunLife benefit booklet has restrictions on accessing medical marijuana that YUFA never agreed to and that we are currently addressing with Faculty Relations. The inappropriate restrictions in the benefits booklet include a pre-approval process and the ability for SunLife to determine which conditions they will cover.Benefits identified in...
July 21, 2022
The York University Faculty Association expresses its solidarity with members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3906. The union, representing over 300 contract faculty members who deliver frontline instruction at McMaster University, is seeking improvements to job security, training, wages, and retirement security. After a year of contract...
July 18, 2022
On March 18th, YUFA successfully negotiated a new fund of $100,000 for YUFA members who self-identify as Indigenous and/or racialized and who are engaged in various sorts of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) service work at the University. This fund is intended to provide eligible members with opportunities for course...
July 15, 2022
On September 20th, 2021, YUFA won a landmark arbitration over the loss of Graduate Assistant (GA) support. Arbitrator Michelle Flaherty concluded that York University’s decision to unilaterally alter its approach to graduate student funding adversely impacted YUFA members and their ability to carry out their research and work. The arbitrator...
June 22, 2022
In December of 2021, YUFA negotiated a settlement with the Employer on a number of COVID-related policy grievances that the Association filed in the summer and fall of 2021. As part of the settlement, and in response to YUFA’s concerns about health and safety in relation to ventilation, the University agreed to...
June 21, 2022
YUFA members may be aware of a grievance that YUFA filed and arbitrated regarding termination of life insurance benefits at age 71. The arbitration decision can be found here. The arbitrator found in YUFA's favour, concluding that the employer had violated the Collective Agreement by terminating life insurance benefits for...
June 16, 2022
YUFA stands in solidarity with the York University Staff Association - Association du Personnel de L'Université York (YusApuY, or YUSA) in its negotiations with the employer for a new collective agreement. The previous agreement expired on July 31, 2021.
June 15, 2022
YUFA Executive often gets queries about what psychological services are covered by the Collective Agreement. The new Collective Agreement (effective May 1, 2022) now includes registered psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and social workers, along with licensed psychologists – up to a maximum of $ 10,000 per benefit year. It is important for...
May 24, 2022
Dear Members of the York Communities, We are writing with not only heavy hearts but heavy souls as we have witnessed yet another horrifying attack on African Americans – this time on those who live in Buffalo. The horrific and hateful targeted attack on Black lives in the heart of...