October 27, 2021
The YUFA Bargaining Team continues to meet with the employer’s bargaining team. At the October 19th bargaining session, YUFA opened with a teaching from an Indigenous elder, which was followed by Bargaining Team member, Angele Alook, presenting key equity proposals related to Indigenous faculty. YUFA has advanced effective, member-initiated proposals...
October 22, 2021
Many members will recall that in the 2018 round of collective bargaining YUFA negotiated an agreement to introduce CPI-based indexation for the “minimum guarantee portion” of the York University Pension Plan. Unfortunately, after bargaining ended the employer introduced a very restrictive and implausible interpretation of “minimum guarantee portion,” treating it...
October 07, 2021
YUFA is holding its annual information session on Tenure and Promotion Thursday, November 4, from 1:00pm - 3:00pm. The workshop will take place via Zoom.
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.