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Upcoming YUFA Elections 19 Nov 2011 | 01:47 pm
YUFA Elections are coming up, with the voting period starting November 21, and there are several key issues, including workload and collegiality, that deserve serious attention.
More on Teaching Stream Appointments 6 Apr 2011 | 08:56 am
I wish I could say that I am astounded that YUFA members are even considering teaching stream appointments. Sadly, there is little that surprises me in the market-driven, instrumentalist university. T...
Continuing the Casualization: Teaching Stream Appointments, Round Two 6 Apr 2011 | 01:28 am
Lykke de la Cour Department of Social Science The administration’s most recent proposal for the creation of teaching-only faculty positions within YUFA is provoking considerable 'deja view' both with...
Career Limiting Move? Teaching-only Positions in Ontario Universities - An OCUFA Policy Background Paper 6 Apr 2011 | 01:01 am
Attachment Size OCUFA's policy paper on teaching-only positions 866.69 KB OCUFA September 2008 From the Executive Summary of the document (you can download the full document below): Teachin...
Another Take On The Teaching-Only Stream Proposal 5 Apr 2011 | 03:35 pm
Janice Newson Administrations in other universities in Canada are attempting to insert teaching streams into their full-time faculty bargaining units and we need to ask ourselves, why. It is not an i...
Why We Must Oppose a New Teaching Stream at York University 4 Apr 2011 | 05:30 am
Craig Heron Department of History (LAPS) Teaching-stream appointments are fundamentally antithetical to all that our university stands for, and, in the name of cost-cutting, would do grave damage. I ...
The Teaching Stream Faculty Category: A View From a Hidden Academic 2 Apr 2011 | 04:00 pm
Bob Hanke Departments of Communication Studies, Humanities, Political Science (LAPS) Introduction (written in April 2011) My article “The Teaching Stream Appointment Offer: ‘Win/Win’ or Subterfuge?...
Money Really Can Buy Anything – Even at the University of Toronto 19 Dec 2010 | 07:11 am
Money really can buy anything – even at the University of Toronto Gerald Caplan http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/gerald-capla... Globe and Mail Update Published Friday, D...
Tentative Agreement: On the Way to Performance Indicators? 12 Sep 2009 | 04:57 am
An Analysis and Commentary on the Proposed Teaching Load Reduction Framework I have been asked to comment on the tentative agreement recently reached between the York administration and the YUFA lead...
Memorandum of Understanding: A Response 12 Sep 2009 | 04:46 am
Marcia Macaulay and Yvette Szmidt On September 17 there will be a meeting to ratify or not a tentative settlement between the employer and YUFA. This tentative settlement fails to reflect the bargain...
