February 29, 2024
Teaching assistants, research assistants, contract faculty, and part-time librarians and archivists at York University represented by CUPE 3903 began a strike on Monday, February 26, 2024. CUPE members are fighting for wages that keep up with inflation, job security, and improved working conditions. YUFA members joined a solidarity rally on...
February 29, 2024
Professor Pat Rogers (née Patricia Greenslade) had a remarkable and influential career that spanned across many different institutions, roles, activities, and relationships. Born just after the end of the war in Woking, England, to a Scottish mother and a Welsh father, she spent her early years in Belfast, Northern Ireland...
February 29, 2024
A web-based application is available YUFA members to review their individual teaching load and, as applicable, sabbatical information maintained in the university’s Academic Resource Management System (ARMS). Access to your ARMS records enables you to review: your annual teaching assignments, both on load and on overload ...
February 28, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
Please see the letter from YUFA President Arthur Hilliker to the Provost's February 27th letter.
February 28, 2024
In a recent communication, the Senate Executive affirmed Senate Policy that individual faculty members are best positioned to determine how academic integrity will be preserved in their courses during a “short disruption,” as defined by the Senate Policy. On the eve of the CUPE 3903 strike, some YUFA members received...
February 26, 2024
YUFA members teaching courses and using eClass will have noticed that the Employer has inserted banners in eClass course pages such as this one: This intervention by the Employer in eClass – of which YUFA members were not alerted – calls into question the use of eClass as a teaching...
February 26, 2024
Deans/Principal have requested notification from faculty members about decisions to suspend a class in the context of the current CUPE 3903 strike. This has caused some members to question what they should do. The decision about whether to suspend classes to preserve the academic integrity of a course rests exclusively...
February 26, 2024
You are invited to join a rally on Monday, February 26, at 11:00am outside the York University subway station. The rally is to support CUPE 3903 in its efforts to negotiate a new collective agreement that addresses affordability and equity. Professor Patrick Phillips, YUFA Vice President External, will be giving...
February 23, 2024
YUFA has recently resolved a dispute with the Employer on historic long-term disability (LTD) premium deduction errors experienced by members on Reduced Load and Irrevocable Reduced Load. As part of the resolution we have secured a small fund to be distributed among members who come forward with LTD premium deduction...
February 16, 2024
CUPE 3903 will be in a legal strike position as soon as February 22, 2024 should negotiations with the Employer fail to reach a new collective agreement. CUPE 3903 represents approximately 3,700 contract faculty, teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and research assistants at York University. The purpose of this document is...