Dear YUSA Member,
Last week the YUSA Bargaining Committee met with the Employer for our first two days of negotiations (September 17th and 19th). Both YUSA and the Employer shared their initial packages of proposals at these meetings.
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YUSA has provided the Employer with proposals that address various non-monetary articles within the Collective Agreement. These proposals introduce language to provide new or greater rights in areas that members have expressed concern over, such as stronger language regarding remote work and workload, increasing your protection from harassment/discrimination, improving health & safety, including physical safety in the workplace, and provisions to protect YUSA jobs from being replaced by artificial intelligence.
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Similar to the previous round of bargaining, the Employer has presented proposals that would reduce rights; these proposals include:
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- Allowing your manager to book you off on vacation without your consent under certain circumstances, and requiring that you use all your vacation time in the year it is accrued.
- Capping the number of sick days you can accrue and limiting the number of sick days you can use to take care of a sick family member.
- Allowing unlimited numbers of co-op students and interns to perform your YUSA bargaining unit work.
- Weakening your internal job posting rights and adding restrictions on when members in continuing positions can take temporary positions.
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These are only a few of the numerous concessionary proposals that the Employer has shared so far.
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As is customary, neither YUSA nor the Employer have shared any monetary proposals (salaries, benefits, etc.) at the outset of negotiations. Typically the parties deal with non-monetary issues first and we will be moving on to monetary proposals at a later stage.
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Reclaiming York for Students and Workers Rally
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Join us on Wednesday, September 25th, along with members from OHFA, YUFA, CUPE 1356, CUPE 3903, and students, as we all join together to stand in solidarity against the recent cuts and restructuring at York University.
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YUSA will be meeting with the Employer twice this week, on September 24th and 25th, for further bargaining.
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In Solidarity, your 2024 Bargaining Team,
Scarlett Farquhar (she/her/elle), Chair, Glendon Representative
Lorraine Mar (she/her), Co-chair, Member at Large
Oliver Barich (they/them), Grievance Committee Representative
Jennifer Ferdinands (she/her), Member at Large
Zeripha Moses (she/her), Long -Serving Member
Sonny Day, President
Wanda Hollingshead, 1st Vice President
Sandra Bell (she/her), 2nd Vice President, Ex-Officio
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Copyright © 2024 York University Staff Association
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YUSAPUY (York University Staff Association – Association du Personnel de L’Universite York) was founded in 1970. First established as an association, it was certified as a union five years later, on December 10, 1975, and today represents thousands of workers at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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