dress our salary problems--by raising floors, awarding merit, adjusting for marketability, or paying across-the-board increase--but our differences pale in comparison to our consensus that salary is the union's top priority.
Advance to GO, collect real dollars.

Issued by the YUFA  Information Officer & Bargaining Support Subcommittee cupe1281

scales are, especially compared with UofT, given the fact that we have comparable costs of living. (Education)

In my view, the most crucial issues are those involving compensation (including salary and benefits). The present situation takes York a good way down the road towards self-tiering: the compensation system, along with abysmal labour relations and the high-handed, non-collegial administration, makes it difficult to recruit and retain good people, and acts as a disincentive to research, innovative teaching, or any kind of extra effort among the faculty who remain. By these policies York will make itself into what some people in the government would like to make it by decree: a second-rate teaching factory.
There is no sign from the administration that they recognize salary issues as problems. At negotiation time they have only two mantras to recite: 'we don't have the money' and 'you don't deserve it anyway'. (Greg Guy, Arts)