YUFA

CUPE strike: A fair and equitable resolution to this dispute will only be achieved by addressing promptly the precarious work situation of York University’s many long serving, high intensity contract faculty.

Since 1988, CUPE has had a program for conversion of a small number of high intensity contract faculty each year into tenure track positions within YUFA. This program is open to any CUPE members with at least five years of Unit II teaching (or equivalent). CUPE is negotiating to continue this program, and YUFA’s contract language is ready for that extension.

The York University Faculty Association (YUFA) calls on the Employer to cease its public calls for binding arbitration as a method of resolving the CUPE 3903 strike. A fair and equitable resolution to this dispute will be found through collective bargaining, not binding arbitration.

David Noble

In a Globe and Mail profile published just after his first week in office, York University's new president Mandouh Shoukri revealed his bold plans to "renovate" the university by focusing upon commercialized research in science, engineering, and medicine. "That is what my mandate is all about," Shoukri explained, "the direction is set."…

At York , of course, it will be an easy sell, as it always is in an autocratic environment... And some will see in the coming renovation a career or organizational opportunity. Already Arthur Hilliker, the president of the faculty association, has publicly echoed Shoukri in his enthusiastic and self-serving –he is chairman of the biology department –endorsement of the mandate.