February 01, 2026
The Annual CAUT Collective Bargaining and Organizing Forum will be held on March 20-21, 2026, in Ottawa. The event brings together CAUT member association negotiators and organizers from across the country, providing opportunities to meet peers from other associations, share high level discussion and build networks of contacts and support....
January 26, 2026
YUFA’s bargaining team has been engaged since last week in intensive mediated bargaining with staff members represented by CUPE 1281. We are pleased to report that an agreement has now been reached on the terms of a renewed staff Collective Agreement. Negotiations continue regarding the Back-to-Work protocol to formally end...
January 26, 2026
The search for the next President of York University will begin shortly. Please see more details HERE. York’s presidential search procedures remain unchanged since 2005. The Senate of the university has key roles in the search. The York University Act (1965) states, “The Senate … has power a) to consult with the...
January 26, 2026
Since January 19, academic librarians, and counsellors represented by the Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) have been on strike. Pensions, wages, and workloads are major issues for the faculty association. During the university’s bankruptcy-driven restructuring in 2022, 110 teaching positions were eliminated; followed by a wage freeze and increases limited to one...
January 26, 2026
The YUFA Executive Committee has approved a financial contribution to LUFA in the amount of $2,000. YUFA typically sends support when sister faculty associations in Canada are on strike or locked-out. After receiving the funds, LUFA wrote back to YUFA, saying: ”We are grateful for your support during this important and challenging...
January 26, 2026
The Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) is seeking support for its Contract Academic Staff Bargaining Unit (CASBU). CASBU has been in bargaining for a new collective agreement since June 2025 and has recently received a no board report, with a possible strike date in early February. CASBU members teach 56.7% of the courses at Nipissing...
January 19, 2026
The York University Staff Association (YUSA Unit 2 administrative workers, many of whom are working in highly precarious conditions at the university, have voted in favour of a strike mandate. Key issues that resulted in the strike mandate vote are no paid sick days, no benefits, no job security, as...
January 19, 2026
Applications are now being accepted for the DEDI Course Load Reduction Program that YUFA negotiated with the Employer in our most recent Collective Agreement (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...
January 19, 2026
In their first round of bargaining following the imposed contract that resulted from Laurentian University’s declaration of insolvency in 2021, members of the Laurentian University Faculty Association are on strike as of Monday, January 19. Despite a last-minute attempt at mediation over the past weekend, they were unable to make...
January 19, 2026
Professor Arthur Hilliker, who died on January 9, was president of YUFA from 2003 to 2014 and again from 2020 to 2024. He also held other positions at YUFA during the past quarter century. He was recruited to York University to serve as Chair of the Department of Biology in...