YUFA’s membership, by a vote of 1212 (yes) to 122 (no), has ratified the renewal of our Collective Agreement until April 30, 2027.

At our Special General Membership Meeting on August 22, members expressed firm support for the Bargaining Team while remained disappointed with the Employer's refusal to address specific top priorities and significant concerns in this round of bargaining. 

Many YUFA members are dealing with grave implications of restructuring at York University.

• Four YUFA colleagues were notified in late July that their Special Renewable Contracts (SRCs) will not be renewed after the fall term, even though they were scheduled to teach all year.  YUFA is grieving their terminations via expedited arbitration, and we strongly condemn the Administration’s non-renewal of these colleagues’ teaching positions, thus reneging on an important commitment to long-service contract faculty at the university.
• The administration is cancelling courses across the university, mandating huge increases in class size, abolishing programs or merging academic units, cutting academic administrator and staff positions, incentivizing retirements, implementing hiring freezes, and resorting to unfair workload allocations among teaching staff, all of which worsens our working conditions and students’ learning conditions.
• YUFA members’ mobilization and organizing continue to be vital.