November 09, 2017
The YUFA Equity Sub-Committee and Equity Caucuses cordially invite all YUFA members to join us at an end-of-term Holiday Equity Social to help celebrate the many efforts of our members to make York a better and more equitable place to work and learn.The event will take place as follows:Annual Holiday...
November 05, 2017
YUFA is inviting all interested members to consider submitting nominations for Executive Officers of the Association for the term beginning June 1, 2018 and ending May 31, 2020.The timeline for nominations and voting is as follows: Friday, November 10, 2017: Nominations open at 2:00 p.m. Friday, November 24, 2017: Nominations close at...
October 26, 2017
In addition to our Vice-President External, YUFA is sending up to five (5) delegates to the upcoming biennial convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), which will take place from November 20 to 24, 2017 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto. The convention theme for 2017 is “Power ON”.This is an...
October 26, 2017
YUFA is seeking members for a joint YUFA-Employer committee.Per Article 7.03 (d) in the Collective Agreement, YUFA is seeking two members for the Teaching-Learning Development Grants/Release-Time Teaching Fellowship/Education Leave Committee (Articles 19.19, 19.31, and 19.32).The Committee is expected to meet once in January, for up to three hours, to review and...
October 25, 2017
Dear colleagues,It has come to YUFA's attention that, for many years, Pension & Benefits has been employing procedures for handling certain types of one-time retroactive and merit award payments that produce erroneous reductions in credited pensionable income and erroneous under-contributions to the pension accounts of many of our members.These errors...
October 23, 2017
Dear colleagues,Most of you have received notices from your Dean/Principal calling for the annual submissions of C.V.s. YUFA has received a number of inquiries about this exercise from members who are concerned about the nature of the submission and the nature of any review that might be involved. In response...
October 23, 2017
An image of the name and logo of "et al."--the new faculty/grad student café and pubThe latest update on the Faculty/Grad Student Café & Pub includes the following items: et al.'s mission and governance structure Become a member today! What would you like et al. to be? How to get...
October 23, 2017
The York Cross-Campus Alliance invites students, staff, faculty, and community members to join us for a solidarity visit to the Seneca College picket line. Please bring a sign, banner, or placard to show your support. 'We stand with Ontario college faculty!' Solidarity visit to Seneca picket lineThursday, October 261:30 p.m....
October 18, 2017
York and Seneca students join the picket line at Seneca @ York on the first day of the strike by 12,000 Ontario college faculty. (credit: YUGSA)Over 12,000 Ontario college faculty, including our colleagues at Seneca @ York, are currently on strike. Their demands include: A 50:50 ratio of full-time to contract...
October 14, 2017
An image of the slogan, "I support College Faculty," and the OPSEU logo below it, inside a red circle (credit: OPSEU College Faculty website)YUFA is proud to be a signatory to the York Cross-Campus Alliance statement in support of Ontario College Faculty (please see below).If YUFA members would like to...