November 03, 2025
YUFA continues with its Wednesday noon drop-in meetings over Zoom. All YUFA members are warmly invited. The next Zoom drop-in meeting on “Retirement: Walking you through the process” (with Richard Wellen and Bob Drummond) is Wednesday, November 5 at noon. Additional drop-in meetings: November 12: Members’ choice -- Collegial discussion on current events at York YUFA’s Fall General Membership Meeting will take place from...
November 03, 2025
Despite a fair and generous offer of a renewed Collective Agreement from the YUFA bargaining team, the 8 staff members that YUFA employs, who are represented by CUPE 1281, remain on strike. The YUFA offer includes handsome wage and benefit increases and additional leave time. The Collective Agreement on offer provides staff with job security, full...
October 27, 2025
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 manner. The position includes reading...
October 27, 2025
Please share the information below with your classes and students, and please join us, as we ask: "What kind of university do we want to create?" Students, faculty, staff, community members are all welcome. The event is supported by the Resource Centre for Public Sociology, at the Department of Sociology. Come learn...
October 27, 2025
YUFA continues with its Wednesday noon drop-in meetings over Zoom. All YUFA members are warmly invited. The next Zoom drop-in meeting on “Considering retirement? Things to consider” (with Richard Wellen and Bob Drummond) is Wednesday, October 29 at noon. Additional drop-in meetings: November 5: Retirement and pensions – “Walking you through the process” (with Richard Wellen and Bob Drummond) November...
October 27, 2025
All members are welcome. This is a management meeting for the purpose of discussing bargaining with YUFA staff and the measures in place to continue serving members during the staff strike.
October 27, 2025
YUFA has continued to negotiate for a fair and generous renewal Collective Agreement for our staff, who are represented by CUPE 1281. Despite the many concessions that YUFA, as employer, has offered over this bargaining round, we have been unable to reach settlement during conciliation. YUFA has taken up the generous offer of facilitation...
October 20, 2025
The film Letter to My Tribe (98 mins. English, Arabic, Hebrew) will be shown in the Nat Taylor Cinema (Ross N102) on November 13 at 7:00pm. The film was first screened at the encampment at the University of Toronto, and had its world premiere at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival in 2024. The...
October 20, 2025
YUFA members are encouraged to read this important article, published in The Local.
October 20, 2025
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...