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YUFA drop-in meetings for members continue on Wednesday, October 29

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...

Bargaining Update: YUFA staff initiate strike on October 27

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...

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...