YUFA News

Active Voice (Reactivated)
31 Oct 07 - The October edition of Active Voice (Reactivated) reports on, among other things, a recent win for academic freedom at York University, as well campus health & safety concerns. It will be showing up in campus mailboxes shortly. more...

Health and Safety on Campus, Fall 2007
24 Sep 07 - This Fall has seen YUFA members concerned not only about their students at risk in dorm attacks, but about themselves at risk, with reports of swarmings in parking garages, dark deserted parking lots, long unlit building corridors after night teaching, excessive noise and dust from construction, poor or absent ventilation... 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...

Workload Workshops
30 Apr 07 - Arthur Hilliker and Scott Forsyth are getting their act together and taking it on the road. YUFA's President and 2006 / 07 Chief Negotiator have been meeting with YUFA members across the University, including the Chairs of many departments, to discuss reductions in workload and teaching load flowing from the new Collective Agreement. more...

March 1997 YUFA On the Picket Lines
20 Mar 07 - In March of 1997, YUFA went on strike. The strike would last 55 days, during one of the coldest springs in Toronto’s history. more...

Restructuring York
31 Jan 05 - The Senate of York University is being asked this month to approve "in principle" a major restructuring initiative: the creation of a new health-related Faculty, along with the reorganization of various academic units and programs in the Faculties of Arts, Atkinson, and Science & Engineering. more...

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