November 03, 2016
The Fall General Membership Meeting (GMM) will take place on November 9. The GMM is open to all YUFA members and is governed by the YUFA Constitution. YUFA strongly encourages your participation, as these issues affect the working conditions of all members.General Membership MeetingWednesday, November 911:30 AM to 1:30 PM *The Underground **York University...
October 30, 2016
Call for participation:The Joint Subcommittee on Benefits is issuing a call to trans and trans allies in YUFA to help implement the Trans Health Fund, a new fund that YUFA negotiated in the last round of bargaining. The new fund is Article 26.11 in the Memorandum of Settlement and is valued at...
October 29, 2016
The York University Retirees' Association (YURA) will host the 17th Annual Showcase & Sale as follows:Showcase & SaleTuesday, November 89:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.East Bear Pit, Central SquareThis year’s sale features: Canadiana country furniture An incredible teddy-bear blowout Arts & crafts Hand-made clothing and knitted items Jewellery & decoratives Paintings & photographs...
October 29, 2016
What we learned from the town hall meetingsIn the last week, YUFA hosted a town hall meeting in each of the five Faculties affected by the Research Release Program, Article 18.15 in the Memorandum of Settlement: AMPD, Education, Glendon, Health, and LA&PS. The meetings were well attended and members gave...
October 17, 2016
In celebration of YUFA's 40th anniversary, YUFA and the Race Equity Caucus are honoured to present a public lecture by esteemed critical race scholar, Dr. Malinda S. Smith from the University of Alberta. Toward an Anti-Racist University:Racial (In)Equity, Intersectionality, and the Social Injustice of Sameness A public lecture by Dr. Malinda...
October 05, 2016
Dear members,YUFA will host a town hall meeting for members in each of the five faculties affected by the Research Release Program, Article 18.15 in the Memorandum of Settlement: AMPD, Education, Glendon College, Health, and LA&PS.As you know, YUFA has expressed concerns that the blanket rejection by Deans of academic units'...
September 22, 2016
As we start this new year, and you look at your paycheque and wonder ... where is this 2$ levy going? Here's where is went last year. Helped fun a summer program to support kids from the Jane Finch community transition to high school called Success Beyond Limits Supported Readers...
September 20, 2016
The Student Mentorship program at York Centre for Education and Community . This is an exciting initiative designed to provide support to York undergraduates with mentoring opportunities by upper year students, drop in times for students to get advice from student interns and volunteer faculty. YUFA CP and it members...
September 20, 2016
How York is opting for a narrow, competitive and selective approach to supporting researchThere is growing concern among YUFA members that the York administration is rushing to embrace the call by the provincial government and advisory agencies to be more selective and narrow in supporting the research activities and ambitions of...
September 20, 2016
The York administration has recently introduced a new funding model for graduate students that will all but eliminate Graduate Assistantships (GAs) at the university. In just one year, the number of GAs has dropped from over 700 to about 130. Even more will disappear next year.Those GAs were represented by...