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Untenured Faculty and Librarians Invited to Apply for the Junior Faculty / Librarian Fund
9 Nov 11 - Untenured faculty and librarians should have recently received a notice inviting them to apply for the Junior Faculty / Librarian Fund. more...

Base Salary Adjustments Effective 1 May 2011
11 May 11 – Effective
1 May 2011, the Base Salary Adjustments for all eligible bargaining unit members will be 2.5%, as per Article 25.03 (c) as well as an additional 0.8172% as per Appendix R for a total increase of 3.3172%.

Update on Teaching Stream and Appendix R
12 Apr 11 – Following the AGM on Wednesday 6 April 2011 the YUFA Executive conveyed the following information to the Employer. more...

Teaching Stream Proposal
30 Mar 11 –
The Employer has approached YUFA with a proposal for a new Teaching Stream. Their proposal will be discussed at Stewards’ Council on 1 April and then at the Annual General Meeting on 6 April. The Rationale and Key Points were provided by the Employer. The Employer’s position with respect to the remaining provisions is gisted. more...

Tentative Agreement with Respect to Appendix R of the Collective Agreement: Teaching Load Reduction
3 Mar 11 –
Teaching workload has been a concern of the membership for many years, through several iterations of bargaining. The desire to contractually rebalance teaching and research workload has been a longstanding one. At the bargaining table in the last round of negotiations, YUFA's proposal was for a normal teaching load decrease for those units whose normal teaching load for the Professorial, tenure-stream was greater than 2.0 FCEs; the Employer refused to consider it, citing costs primarily. Appendix R was the best we could do at the time. more...

Revised Timeline regarding Appendix R Workload Framework
19 Jan 11 – At its meeting on 12 January 2011, the YUFA Executive received a progress report from the YUFA Caucus of the Joint Long Range Planning Subcommittee on Workload. more...

Agreement Reached on Sabbatical Opportunities before Normal Retirement Date
8 Aug 07 – In the recent round of bargaining, Article 14 – Retirement – was substantially changed in light of the end of mandatory retirement. Article 14.05, which describes opportunities for sabbaticals before normal retirement date... more...

Conference Travel Funds
29 May 07 - The YUFA negotiating team in the last round of collective bargaining achieved considerable gains in terms of conference travel funds for YUFA members. Article 19.29(c) of the new Collective Agreement provides a fund for conference travel support of $180,000.00 (increased from $102,525 in 2005). more...

Tracking Workload
12 Jun 03 - YUFA members have expressed concerns about growing workloads in bargaining priority and workload questionnaires. The Grievance Committee needs information from members about changes in workload practices. more...

Graduate Supervision Credits Extended to MRPs
28 Apr 03 - Credit for graduate supervision, as outlined in Appendix O of current agreement, has been extended to include MRPs (Masters major research papers) for 2001-2003.  more...

New Pension Plan Booklet Contains Errors
30 May 02 - Members recently received a "Pension Plan Booklet" from the Employer. While some parts are helpful and accurate, the booklet contains some important errors of interpretation. more ...

Not Spoken, Not Written, Not Respected
12 Mar 02 - Walter Whiteley on the new exam schedule: management is reshaping our working lives and we have little protection. Is this just the beginning? more...

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