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Remediation
/ Returning
to Class FAQs
30 Jan 09 – Issues relating to remediation and returning
to class following the CUPE 3903 strike were discussed at a full meeting
of the Joint Committee on Administration of the Collective Agreement (JCOAA)
on Thursday, 29 January 2009. YUFA raised the following issues and
concerns on members’ behalf. Outlined below are the results of our
preliminary meeting. Discussions will be ongoing and we will let you
know as additional information becomes available. In the interim,
members are encouraged to contact YUFA with respect to any issues they
may have (yufa@yorku.ca).
more...
YUFA Communications Regarding CUPE 3903 Strike
St. Thomas University
Job Action
14 Feb 08 -
On 2 February, the
Faculty Association of the University of St. Thomas and the Board of
Governors agreed to send remaining issues to binding arbitration, thus
ending the 38-day lock-out/strike.
more...
CUPE
3903 Work-to-Rule Campaign
11 Dec 07 - The following email was sent to the YUFA
Executive & membership today ...
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Acadia
University Faculty Assocation Job Action
20 Nov 07 - After a record breaking 3rd visit from the CAUT
Defence Fund Flying Pickets, Acadia University's Employer returned to
the table and a tentative settlement was reached.
more...
Day of Action:
9 August 2007
7 Aug 07 - The ITUC (International Trade Union
Confederation) and ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation)
have called an International Day of Action for the release of Mansour
Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi, two prominent trade union prisoners in Iran.
The Canadian Labour Congress is planning a Day of Action on Thursday
August 9.
more...
Bishop's
University
Reaches Agreement in Principle
7 Aug 07 -
Last night
representatives from the University and the APBU signed an agreement in
principle thus ending the strike of non-academic staff and the lock-out
of unionized employees at Bishop's University. more...
Bishop’s
University Faculty Face Possible Lockout
23 Jul 07 - The Association of Professors
of Bishop’s University in Lennoxville remains under a media blackout
this morning as we wait to hear whether the faculty will be locked
out, to join the support staff who have been on strike for three
weeks now.
more...
Bishop's University Strike
10 Jul 07 - The staff at Bishop's University are on strike. Bishop's
has an unusual situation, the only one in the country, where staff
and faculty are represented by the same union, in different units,
and the faculty, although not yet on strike, are out on the picket
lines supporting them. On strike, the staff are entitled to strike
support by the CAUT Defense Fund (now at $20 million), and on
Thursday 5 July, Louise Ripley, once again serving as one of YUFA's
representatives on this Board, travelled to Lennoxville to help CAUT
bring the million dollar cheque that they once brought to York in
1997.
more...
OPSEU 560 College
Faculty Job Action
10 Mar 06 - The Executive of YUFA, York University's
union of full-time professors and librarians, unanimously supports OPSEU's
efforts to reach a fair and timely settlement during its current strike.
more...
Forum to Discuss Labour Relations at
York University
2 Nov 09 -
On 6 July, in response to last year’s campus strike, President Shoukri
announced a
Third Party Initiative to look into labour relations at York. YUFA
encourages members to attend and participate in a YUFA forum to express
their views on labour relations at York. The forum will be held on 20
November 2009, 10:30 am – noon in the Senate Chambers.
more...
Information Bulletin Regarding the CAUT Inquiry
15 Sep 09 - CAUT
recently announced that it
has created an academic freedom inquiry regarding the recent York /
Queen’s conference on Israel and Palestine.
more...
Toronto & York Region Labour
Council Rally
Good Jobs For All
9 Jun 09 - It's
time: To fix EI, to protect pensions, to
put people before banks, for strong public services. Mobilization starts
now for a mass rally and march.
more...
CUPE 3903 Research Assistant Drive
18 Sep 06 - YUFA Executive voted to endorse
the drive by CUPE 3903 to organize Research Assistants at York
University.
more...
YUFA Executive Reaffirms Opposition to
Academic Boycotts
5 June 06 - In response to member queries concerning
boycotts of universities and their professors by faculty associations,
YUFA Executive has re-affirmed its position of June 3, 2005.
more...
YUFA Executive Opposes Boycotts
3 June 05 - In response to members' queries
concerning boycotts of universities and their professors by faculty
associations, YUFA Executive passed the following motion:
more...
YUFA Members Honoured by CAUT
31 May 05 - At the recent CAUT (Canadian Association
of University Teachers) Council, held in Ottawa April 28-May1, two YUFA
members, Mary Kandiuk and Meg Luxton, were honoured.
more...
Stakeholders Express Concern re Rae Report
17 Feb 05
– YUFA’s Executive
will be responding formally to the Rae Commission’s Report and
recommendations on the future of post-secondary education in Ontario. In
the meantime, YUFA concerned members should consider documents
especially relevant to YUFA in particular and York.
more...
Open Letter re Rae Commission Discussion Paper
2 Dec 04 - Recently the Ontario Postsecondary Review
Secretariat issued a Discussion Paper concerning issues relevant to
postsecondary education in the Province of Ontario. Numerous issues are
discussed in the paper and I wish to address several... more...
OCUFA Calls on York
President to Abide by Posted Regulations
14 July 04 - At its Annual General Meeting in Toronto,
OCUFA passed the following motion... more...
Local
High-School Students Experience Life at York
16 Jun 04 - "Amazing."
"Outstanding." "A great experience." These are just
some of the comments made by students from Westview Centennial
Secondary School and Emery Collegiate to describe their experience of
life at York University through the Advanced Credit Experience
(ACE) in the York / Seneca program. more...
Women Receiving Less than 1 in
6 Canada Research Chairs
8 Oct 02 - "Discouragement" and
"outrage" were the words included in a motion passed by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council deploring the small
percentage of women awarded Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Robert
MacDermid reports. more...
YUFA Joins the OFL
27 Aug 02 - YUFA has joined the Ontario
Federation of Labour (OFL). "The Fed", founded in 1944, works in areas
such as communications, education, research, legislative and political
action, human rights, occupational health & safety, and worker's
compensation. It is the central organisation for more than 650000 unionized
employees in Ontario. more...
Call for
Submissions for the OCUFA 2006 Teaching & Academic Librarianship Awards
5 Jan 07 - OCUFA has put out its call for submissions for
the 2006 Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards.
more...
Faculty Members:
Study Trip Abroad Announcement
11 Dec 07 - UBC's Faculty of Education has announced a
two-week study abroad program in April 2008 which will be held in South
Africa.
more...
Conference Opportunities
The YUFA Executive is interested in
sending members to upcoming conferences. more...
OCUFA Conference on Financing Higher Education in the Current Economic
Climate
22-23 January 2010,
Toronto, ON
Delegates' Reports:
Gary Spraakman
Leslie Sanders
Report on CAUT Conference, Transforming the Academy: Forum for
Aboriginal Academic Staff
13-15 November 2009, Saskatoon, SK
7 Dec 09 08 - Rose Steele, Equity Officer,
provides this conference report.
more...
CAUT Librarians’ Conference & Workshop "Negotiating
for Parity: Closing the Librarian / Faculty Gap"
23-25 October 2009,
Ottawa, ON
Delegates' Reports:
Mary Kandiuk
Daniel Perlin
CAUT
Contract Academic Staff Conference 2009
30 May 2009, Ottawa, ON
Delegates' Reports:
Ruthanna Dyer
Jay Rahn
CAUT Equity Forum - "Recasting
Equity"
6-8
February 2009, Toronto, ON
Delegates'
Reports:
Deborah Brock
Peter Duerr - no report filed.
Eve Haque
Mitzi Mitchell
OCUFA Conference – Accounting or Accountability in Higher Education
23-24 January 2009, Toronto, ON
Delegates'
Reports:
Julie Clark
Sharon Murphy
Leslie Sanders
Richard Wellen
CAUT Women’s
Conference: Mobilizing in an Era of Restructuring
16-18 October 2008, Ottawa
Delegates'
Reports:
Janice Newton
Lorna Erwin
Mitzi Mitchell
Narda Razack
Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education (CAPDHHE) National Conference on Race and Diversity in Higher Education
6-8 May 2008, Ottawa
Delegates' Reports:
Eve Haque
Didi Khayatt
Navigating the Academy:
A CAUT Forum for Aboriginal Academic Staff
31 January–3 February
2008, Winnipeg
10 Mar 08 - Patricia O'Riley, Coordinator, Certificate in Aboriginal
Studies, and Atkinson Social Sciences, describes this as an historic
event.
more...
“Workers’ Rights,
Human Rights: Making the Connection” Conference
16-17 November 2007, Toronto
Delegates' Reports:
Linda Briskin
Hyun Ok Park
Mark Thomas
+ Steven Tufts
Report on
CAUT Librarians’ Conference & Workshop "Moving Forward: Academic
Librarians & Collective Bargaining"
26-27 October 2007, Vancouver
Delegates' Reports:
Maura Matesic
Arthur Hilliker
OCUFA Reorganizing Our Reality: A Better Work Environment for University
Women
26 October 2007, Toronto
Delegates' Reports:
Andrea O'Reilly
Shobna Nijhawan
Alice Propper
Contract Academic Staff Conference 2007: Career Path or Pit? Overcoming
the Challenges
13 Jul 07 – YUFA President Arthur Hilliker reports on the
CAUT conference held at the University of Alberta concerning the
challenges facing contract academic staff.
more...
OCUFA Election 2007 Communication Workshop
22 Jun 07 – Louise Ripley reports on OCUFA's workshop
for member organizations re communicating with the media in the upcoming
provincial elections.
more...
Doing Academia Differently: CAUT Women’s
Conference
22-24 February 2007, Ottawa
Delegates'
Reports:
Joan Allen
Kym Bird
Eve Haque
Didi Khayatt
OCUFA Conference: Restructuring of the Academy:
Current Realities and Preferred Directions
19 January 2007, Toronto
Delegates' Reports:
Joan Allen
Susan Dimock
Indhu Rajogopal
CLC National Labour Education Conference
30 November 2006, Ottawa
Delegates' Reports:
Joan Allen
Carla Lipsig-Mumme
Labour Arbitration Conference 2006 (Toronto) 23 Nov 06, report by John Bell, YUFA Chief Steward
CAUT Intellectual Property Conference
27-29 October 2006, Ottawa
Delegates'
Reports:
John Blazina
Ruthann Dyer
Jay Rahn
Dominque Scheffel-Dunand
Sharon Wang
Communities and
Universities: Partners in Education
22-23 October 2006, Simon Fraser University
Delegates' Reports:
Joan Allen
Stephanie Baker Collins
Don Dippo
Sheila Lewis
David McNab
Deena Yanofsky
The Work and Learning Network Conference: False Promises:
Precarious Work in the New Economy
20-21 October 2006, University of Alberta
Read delegate,
Tony Fang's report.
The
Race / Culture Divide in Education, Law and the Helping Professions, Fifth Annual Critical Race Conference
4-6
May 2006
Delegates' Reports:
Sheila Lewis
Alice Propper
Narda Razack
Conference Report: Critical Race Theory and Human Rights
29 Nov 05 - Lesley Jacobs reports on this conference.
more...
CAUT Academic Freedom Conference
Post 9/11
28-30
October
2005, Toronto
Delegates' Reports:
Ben Lowinsky
John
Blazina
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
Conference Report: STATUS Conference: A Working Conference to Move
Forward on the Regularization of Non-Status Immigrants
3 Aug 05 - Amy Casipullai reports on this conference.
more...
Conference Report: Health, Equity and Diversity: Local Realities and International
Perspectives. Stimulating Change.
19 Jul 05 - Narda Razack reports on this recent
conference held on June 10-12, 2005 at OISE. The conference
focused on providing opportunites for community stakeholders,
researchers, educators, health practitioners and advocates to gather
information and knowledge and help shape an agenda of change and to
advance the public policy agenda in relations to urban health diversity.
more...
CLC's Balancing
Work and Family Conference March 2005
Delegates' Reports:
Jody
Nyasha Warner
Andrea
O'Reilly
Report on Canadian Labour Congress Conference: Healthy Workplace,
Healthy Environment - Alliances for Activists
10 Feb 05 - Gene Desfor reports on the CLC conference
which focused on enabling participants to develop an understanding of
the full range of occupational and environmental diseases, the impact on
health of global warming, and preventive action through the Kyoto
Protocol on Climate Change Preventive action in the workplace and
through labour-community alliances.
more...
CAUT Grievance
Conference
3 Dec 04 - This conference for senior grievance officers
allowed for discussion and problem solving within working groups of
grievance officers of similar sized institutions. Both unionized
and non-unionized faculty associations were represented at the
conference. more...
Lancaster
House’s Human Rights and Accommodation in the Workplace
4 Mar 04 - Ruthanna Dyer reports
that employers and unions are dealing with accommodation issues in a
different climate following the Supreme Court of Canada decision in favour
of Meiorin, in which the Court ruled that any standard applied to job
performance must be non-discriminatory and related to the essential core
duties of the job. more...
CAUT
Conference on Contract Academic Staff
January 2004, Ottawa
Jan 04 - "CAUT believes that excellence in
education is best assured through the secure continuing appointments of
career academics. CAUT opposes the increasing use of casual labour to
fulfill ongoing staffing requirements.
more...
CAUT Conference Report
November 2003
CAUT
Librarians Conference 2003
Academic Status
Under-valued? Under Threat?
4 Dec 03 - Mary
Kandiuk, Maura Matesic, and Vivienne Monty report. more...
OFL Conference
"Accommodation and Disability Rights and Responsibilities"
7 Oct 03 - Arthur Hilliker reports. more...
Building
Power: Aboriginal / Workers of Colour
14 Jun 03 - Tania Das Gupta
reports. more...
CLC's 12th Annual Women's Conference
8-11 June 2003,
Ottawa
Delegates' Reports:
Linda Briskin
Ruthann Dyer
CAUT
Meeting Report
1-4 May 2003, Ottawa
Economists and Public
Education Activists Examine Ontario Universities at OCUFA conference
27 Feb 03 - Richard Wellen reports. more...
Toronto
District Labour Council Meeting Report
26 Feb 03 - Penni Stewart
reports. more...
Collective Bargaining & Economic Benefits
Conference: Bargaining for Equity
31 January - 2 February 2003
Delegates' Reports:
Gail Kellough
Carl James
CAUT Council Meeting Report
22-24 November 2002, Ottawa
Delegates' Reports:
Nick Lary
Barbara
Crow
Disability
Rights Best Treated at Bargaining Table, says OFL
22 Nov 02 - As in many workplaces, much work needs to be
done to ensure that the duty to accommodate is met in an effective and
non-discriminatory manner for YUFA members. Ruthanna Dyer reports on the
2002 OFL conference on disability rights. more...
Laws, Courts,
Arbitrators Strengthen Disability Rghts
22 Nov 02 - The kinds of barriers people with disabilities
face at work are wide ranging including physical, administrative and
attitudinal barriers. The good news is that changes to the law and
recent grievance settlements have largely been favourable for people
with disabilities. Jody Nyasha Warner reports on the 2002 OFL
disability rights conference. more...
Conference Short on
Initiatives & Strategies for Improving the Status of Women Faculty
12 Nov 02 - Barbara Crow provides a 2nd report from
CAUT's October conference "Gender equity: from graduate student
to professor emerita". more...
"Awfulizing": Women in the
Academy
31 Oct 02 - Ruthanna Dyer reports from the CAUT conference
"Women in the Professoriate: From Graduate Student to Professor Emerita", recently held in Montréal. more...
Librarians Could be Key to
Academic Freedom, Public Access to Research
23 May 02 - Maura Matesic reports from the CAUT Librarians
Conference "Academic Librarians in the Digital Age". more...