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...
October 15, 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...
October 06, 2025
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...
October 06, 2025
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...
October 06, 2025
YUFA continues to defend several of the 18 YUFA colleagues who hold Special RenewableContracts (SRCs). Some contracts were not renewed where they should have been; this isunacceptable. YUFA is taking all measures available to remediate the situation. The Employer'stargeting of some of these colleagues for dismissal is unacceptable and YUFA will continue...
October 06, 2025
YUFA continues with its Wednesday noon drop-in meetings over Zoom. All YUFA members arewarmly invited. The first Zoom drop-in meeting on “Tenure and Promotion (part 1)” is this Wednesday,October 8 at noon. This meeting and the next, on October 15, are especially for colleagueswho will be applying for T&P soon....