February 06, 2025
The next meeting of Stewards' Council is Friday, February 7th from 10:30am-12:30pm. Meetings of Stewards’ Council are open to all YUFA members.
The Zoom link for the meeting is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87152235081?pwd%3DWUKZhO0NzyVo5D57u8cUUbK8Ki4ix4.1
[Meeting ID: 871 5223 5081 Passcode: 783335]
February 06, 2025
During the Winter term, feel free to join other members at our Wednesday drop-in meetings. The topic of focus for the meeting on February 12th is “Faculties of the Future? Alternative visions for York”. The meetings are held over Zoom from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. The Zoom link for all meetings...
January 30, 2025
In the 2015-18 round of bargaining, YUFA successfully negotiated a "research release" program designed to support active scholarly work. Specifically, faculty members in the professorial stream who demonstrate ongoing research productivity are eligible for a 0.5 FCE teaching load reduction when their unit's standard teaching load is 2.5 FCEs or...
January 30, 2025
YUFA is a long-standing member of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), a federation of trade unions and associations linking approximately 70,000 professors, librarians and archivists, staff members, researchers, and other academic professionals at 120 universities and colleges across Canada. It supports member organizations’ bargaining, upholds academic freedom, provides...
January 30, 2025
YUFA condemns the concessions demanded by the Employer in negotiations.
This YUSA press release (January 22, 2025) highlights YUSA’s push back against rising workloads and cuts to benefits.
January 30, 2025
The next meeting of Stewards' Council is Friday, February 7th from 10:30am-12:30pm. Meetings of Stewards’ Council are open to all YUFA members.
The Zoom link for the meeting is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87152235081?pwd%3DWUKZhO0NzyVo5D57u8cUUbK8Ki4ix4.1 [Meeting ID: 871 5223 5081 Passcode: 783335]
January 30, 2025
During the Winter term, feel free to join other members at our Wednesday drop-in meetings. The topic of focus for the meeting on January 29 is “Security on campus”. The meetings are held over Zoom from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. The Zoom link for all meetings is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86781192358?pwd=6V5B5DITARrYREmAxnRWR2KsFaqR9C.1 Future dates and...
January 22, 2025
The Employer is now accepting applications for the EDI Course Load Reduction Program, which was negotiated by YUFA (Article 19.33). The program offers YUFA members course load reductions to “support service relating to/in support of Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) by faculty and librarians and archivists who self-identify as...
January 22, 2025
On January 17, the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO) announced that they had reached a tentative two-year extension of their Collective Agreement. APUO’s campaign with the University of Ottawa Students' Union, titled “Take Back Our University”, calls on their Board of Governors to protect high quality...