September 24, 2021
The YUFA Collective Agreement expired on April 30, 2021, and the YUFA Executive and Bargaining Team are currently working hard to negotiate a fair and equitable collective agreement for all our members. This is an important round of bargaining for YUFA, especially in the contexts of an ongoing global pandemic...
September 20, 2021
As many of you know, there is an ongoing dispute between YUFA and the Employer with respect to the interpretation of 18.08.3 of the collective agreement which, in YUFA’s view, gives units the authority to make collegial decisions with respect to the structure, format and mode of delivery. We have...
September 17, 2021
We wish to warmly congratulate Dr. Sheila Embleton who has been appointed President, Academy of Arts and Humanities within the Royal Society of Canada. Many of you will have worked with Sheila in her capacity as YUFA Chief Steward. This is a great development for the Royal Society of Canada...
September 16, 2021
On September 9th YUFA co-sponsored an expert panel titled “Is it safe enough to return to campus? What do public health scientists say?”
I encourage you to view and share this video of the event: https://youtu.be/hsx_UZCweDY
September 13, 2021
Several months ago, Senate Executive approved a set of planning assumptions and guidelines that would make possible an increase in in-person teaching for Fall 2021, in the hope and expectation that Ontario would have exited Step 3 of the provincial government's re-opening plan and that daily new cases would be...
September 10, 2021
The Department of Social Science passed the following motion yesterday at their departmental council meeting. The motion may be of interest to YUFA members in light of the discussions at the September 2nd Special General Membership Meeting.
September 09, 2021
One of the most important benefits programs provided to YUFA members is our Long Term Disability (LTD) Plan which provides income insurance to cover members during times of extended medical or disability leave. In the last round of bargaining YUFA signed a memorandum of agreement - ratified by members -...
September 07, 2021
At a Special General Membership Meeting held Thursday September 2, members discussed their serious concerns about the employer's refusal to consider the safety concerns of our members in relation to the planned return to campus. In the end, members adopted two motions which laid out YUFA's position on the return...
September 01, 2021
At the very last minute and a week before the start of an in-person return to campus, the Ontario government, Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU), introduced new guidelines today exempting postsecondary education institutions from capacity limits and physical distancing measures on campuses. As we face a fourth-wave of the pandemic,...