How York University Lost the Trust of Its Community - article in The Local
YUFA members are encouraged to read this important article, published in The Local.
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YUFA wins arbitration on untimely employer response to unit workload document
An arbitrator has agreed with YUFA that the Employer breached the Collective Agreement when it failed to provide a response to a unit that had submitted a workload document to the Dean's Office in the Fall of 2023. Despite multiple follow ups from the unit and from YUFA in the spring of 2024, the Dean's Office failed to...
Call for Nominees: YUFA Returning Officer
YUFA is seeking one (1) member to serve as Returning Officer for the Association. The Returning Officer’s primary duties are to ensure that all elections, including those for Officers, Stewards, ratification votes and approval of budgets and levies, conform with the YUFA Constitution and YUFA By-Laws and are conducted in a fair and trustworthy...
YUFA supports college support workers on strike at Ontario’s colleges
More than 10,000 full-time college support workers, members of the Ontario Public ServiceEmployees Union (OPSEU), have been on strike since September 11 fighting for the future ofstudent supports and public education in Ontario.There is a picket line at Seneca@York from Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 3:00 pm. YUFAmembers are...
Results from survey of YUFA members
In September approximately 10% of members completed a survey focused on workload,teaching, equity and academic freedom. Among the findings were the extraordinarily low ranking given to the leadership of theuniversity by the chair of the Board of Governors and by the President. On a scale of 1 (noeffective leadership at...
YUFA continues to fight for colleagues who hold Special Renewable Contracts
YUFA continues to defend several of the 18 YUFA colleagues who hold Special RenewableContracts (SRCs). Some contracts were not renewed where they should have been; this isunacceptable. YUFA is taking all measures available to remediate the situation. The Employer'stargeting of some of these colleagues for dismissal is unacceptable and YUFA will continue...
Update on bargaining with YUFA staff
The union representing YUFA's staff members, CUPE 1281 (YUFA sub-unit), requested a “no-board report” on Friday October 3 at the end of our first day of conciliation, after YUFA hadagreed to conciliation as requested by the staff union, and had withdrawn 45 of our initialproposals. The union refused to discuss...
YUFA drop-in meetings for members start on Wednesday, October 8
YUFA continues with its Wednesday noon drop-in meetings over Zoom. All YUFA members arewarmly invited. The first Zoom drop-in meeting on “Tenure and Promotion (part 1)” is this Wednesday,October 8 at noon. This meeting and the next, on October 15, are especially for colleagueswho will be applying for T&P soon....
Update on bargaining with staff
YUFA is currently involved in a round of collective bargaining with our eight staff members, represented by CUPE 1281. The union (1281) has applied for conciliation, a formal, mandatory step in collective bargaining where a government-appointed conciliation officer is made available to assist a union and an employer to reach a...
YUFA sends letter to President Lenton regarding September 18 Town Hall
YUFA has sent the following letter raising concerns around the September 18 Town Hall. --- September 26, 2025 Dear President Lenton and Provost Philipps, We write regarding the September 18, 2025, Town Hall. We are troubled by the fact that, once again, there was a last-minute shift from in-person to...