April 15, 2024
Dear colleagues, It has been an eventful weekend for the unions on campus as they reached agreement with the Employer. Please find details of the Bill-124 retroactive award for YUFA in a message earlier this morning to members. On another matter, CUPE 3903 reports that its bargaining team reached a...
April 15, 2024
In the late evening of April 13th, Arbitrator Eli A. Gedalof issued an award in the matter of a multi-party interest mediation-arbitration pursuant to the March 18, 2024 Memorandum of Agreement regarding Bill 124 wage reopener. The award was issued to York University Faculty Association, York University Staff Association, Osgoode...
April 11, 2024
At a YUFA Special General Membership Meeting on April 10, 2024, two-thirds (67%) of members voted in favour of a motion calling for the resignation of the President, Provost, and Chair of the Board of Governors of York University. Members noted the financial and administrative mismanagement at the university, the...
April 09, 2024
Dear colleagues, Please be advised of the following: There is a YUFA Special General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, April 10th. (See YUFA-M for zoom link and meeting details) YUFA begins bargaining for a new collective agreement - update Do consider completing the YUFA Communications Survey before April 15th. The survey...
April 05, 2024
YUFA will be holding a 2nd Special General Membership Meeting (SGMM) on Wednesday, April 10, 2pm-4pm. A zoom link will be provided over YUFA-M. The waiting room will be opened 15 minutes early to accommodate sign in procedures. The agenda for this meeting is to continue discussions on emergency matters arising...
March 28, 2024
YUFA will be holding a special general membership on Wednesday, April 10, from 2pm to 4pm. More details, including a zoom link and meeting materials, will be sent over YUFA-M shortly.
March 28, 2024
On March 27th, Dan Bradshaw, Assistant Vice-President Labour Relations of Faculty Relations at York University, issued a public letter to the CUPE 3903 bargaining team containing misleading information. The Employer asserts that five other unions at York University agreed to binding interest arbitration, but failed to specify this agreement applies...
March 28, 2024
The YUFA collective agreement expires at the end of April 2024. YUFA's bargaining team has begun to meet the Employer in the early stages of negotiations to achieve a renewal of the collective agreement. At the urging of the Employer, two meetings will take place on April 2 and April...
March 28, 2024
Professor Elaina Hyde of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and Director of the Allan Carswell Observatory, is coordinating events related to the solar eclipse that will be visible at York University, the Toronto area, and much of Ontario on April 8, 2024. Please see this website for more information....