March 8th - YUFA Members
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Dear colleagues,
We find ourselves in the midst of another strike at York. This time, we think it can be different.
With journalists, academics and academic associations across the country (and beyond) speaking
out about the dangers of ever-increasing budget cutbacks to higher education, and the
deteriorating conditions for so many that work in this setting, these issues are in the public eye.
Strikers have the support of the public. Let's make sure they have the support of the faculty.
313 YUFA members have signed a statement expressing solidarity with CUPE 3903 (see text
below). The statement, which is open for additional signatures, emphasizes that full time and
contract faculty share a number of common interests: better teaching and learning environments,
including fair compensation for RAs, GAs, and TAs who work and study; just compensation and
job security for the contract faculty that teach more than half our undergraduate courses; and
strengthened university governance, collegiality and academic freedom.
64% of undergraduate teaching at York is carried out by underpaid and overworked contract
faculty, while student tuition is rising at unprecedented rates. Based on available data, since
2006, tuition has increased 42% for domestic students, while for international students, it has
risen by more than 50%. CUPE won the indexing of their pay to tuition increases in 1998, and
are threatened with losing it in this contract. All units of CUPE face increasingly oppressive
conditions for studying and teaching and the dispiriting knowledge that they bear
disproportionate loss in budget planning.
It is very important that York University hears our individual and collective voices in relation to
these trends. Please add your name to the statement of solidarity, and help mobilize to get the
signatures of your colleagues.
If you want to add your signature, please send your name to Jody Berland <[email protected]>
and Ricardo Grinspun <[email protected]>. So as to avoid more inbox clutter, please send name
additions and minor points directly to us (including suggestions to improve the statement), and
let's keep lists for substantive discussion. If you have indicated your support and your name is
not in the list, or if there is an inaccuracy, do let us know.
All the best,
Jody and Ricardo
OPEN STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FROM YUFA MEMBERS
We the undersigned members of YUFA, representing full time faculty at York, express our full
public support for the striking workers of CUPE 3903. It is clear that CUPE 3903 at York and
3902 at U of T are both struggling against the growth in poorly paid contingent and contract
labour in universities, a trend that threatens tenure-stream faculty and the institution in myriad
ways.
While Ontario has the worst per-student funding formulas in Canada, York has the worst
proportional ratio of tenure track hires in Ontario. The growth in contingent labour in the
academy contributes directly to the undermining of YUFA work, as our numbers decrease in
proportion to the number of students and the research, governance and graduate teaching needs
of the university.
In addition to harming the teaching and learning environment, the expansion of academic
insecurity more broadly harms the university as a public institution, with its chilling effects on
faculty governance, collegiality, and academic freedom. The rise of contingent faculty is further
developing in tandem with the bloating of senior administration and salaries. Our two unions --
CUPE 3903 and YUFA -- stand together in opposing these trends. We call upon the university to
negotiate fairly and respectfully and to resolve the strike equitably in the interest of our teachers
and students.
Signatories (as of March 8, 2015, 10:00 pm):
Teresa Abbruzzese
Gamal Abdel-Shehid
Anna M. Agathangelou
Farah Ahmad
Greg Albo
Joan Allen
Sabah Alnaseri
Pat Armstrong
Alireza Asgharzadeh
Marie-
Christine Aubin
Aimé B. Avolonto
Ibrahim Badr
Harjeet Badwall
Isabella Bakker
Ian Balfour
Annemarie Barnes
Amélie Barras
Sarah Barrett
Tereza Barta
Ranu Basu
Jon Baturin
Sylvia Bawa
Dawn Bazely
Margaret E. Beare
Shannon Bell
Jody Berland
Guillaume Bernardi
Georges Bérubé
Ulrich Best
Kym Bird
Katherine Bischoping
Marcus Boon
Philippe Bourdin
Martin Breaugh
Deborah Brock
Stephen Brooke
Mauro Buccheri
Donald Burke
Barbara Cameron
Mora Campbell
Eduardo Canel
Donald L. Carveth
Sheila Cavanagh
P.
Christopher Chan
Chris Chapman
Lily Cho
Matthew Clark
Colin Coates
Rina Cohen
George Comninel
Diana Cooper-Clark
Marc Coroux
Natalie Coulter
Cheryl Cowdy
Warren Crichlow
Alison Crosby
Raju Das
Tania Das Gupta
Elizabeth Dauphinee
Deborah Davidson
Megan J. Davies
William Denton
Susan Dion
David Doorey
Susan Driver
Lisa Drummond
John Dwyer
Susan Ehrlich
Christo El Morr
Denielle Elliott
Sesil Erdogan
Lorna Erwin
Jose Etcheverry
Barbara Evans
Geoffrey Ewen
Esther Fine
Caitlin Fisher
Stephen H. Ford
Honor Ford-Smith
Scott Forsyth
Jennifer Foster
Gail Fraser
Michael Friendly
Amber Gazso
Sakis Gekas
Liette Gilbert
Wenona Giles
Stephen Gill
Amanda Glasbeek
Terry Goldie
Luin Goldring
David Goldstein
Mark Goodman
Rachel Gorman
Andil Gosine
Laurence Green
Michael Greyeyes
John Greyson
Ricardo Grinspun
Altana Guia
Shubhra Gururani
Ellen Gutterman
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
Jan Hadlaw
Laam Hae
Nancy Davis Halifax
Barbara Hanson
Eve Haque
Jin Haritaworn
Philip Harland
Sharon Hayashi
Lyse Hébert
Terry Heinrichs
Judy Hellman
Stephen Hellman
Rob Heynen
Philip Hoffman
Teresa Holmes
Asher Horowitz
Hernan Humana
Jennifer Hyndman
Pablo Idahosa
Susan Ingram
Stanley Jeffers
William Jenkins
Cameron Johnston
Janet Jones
Jan Kainer
Hong Kal
Ilan Kapoor
Eva C. Karpinski
Ali Kazimi
Magdalena Kazubowski-
Houston
Peggy Keall
Roger Keil
Philip Kelly
Kamala Kempadoo
Robert Kenedy
Gerald Kernerman
Sean Kheraj
Janice Kim
Stefan Kipfer
Andrea Kosavic
Ildiko Kovacs
Christina Kraenzle
Sailaja Krishnamurti
Avron Kulak
Fuyuki Kurasawa
Hannes Lacher
Sam Lanfranco
Suzanne Langlois
Robert Latham
Yam Lau
Bonita Lawrence
James Laxer
Richard Leblanc
Becky Lee
Ute Lehrer
Laura Levin
Nina Levitt
Joel Lexchin
Shanna Lino
Carla Lipsig-Mumme
Kenneth Little
Jaime LLambias-Wolff
Rodney Loeppky
Brenda Longfellow
Stephen Longstaff
Libby Lunstrum
Meg Luxton
Willem Maas
Marcia Macaulay
Robert MacDermid
Margaret MacDonald
Teresa Macias
Heather MacRae
Neal Madras
Terry Maley
Guida Man
Nancy Mandell
Janine Marchessault
Alina Marquez
Aryn Martin
Ian Martin
Emiro Martinez-Osorio
John Mayberry
Carlota McAllister
John McCullough
Pat McDermott
Gillian McGillivray
Susan McGrath
Wendy McKeen
David McNab
David McNally
Merouan Mekouar
Gertrude Mianda
Jacinthe Michaud
Michael Michie
Radhika Mongia
Felipe Montoya
Esteve Morera
Gabriele Mueller
Arun Mukherjee
Nick Mulé
Carmela Murdocca
David Murray
Karen
Bridget Murray
Marcello Musto
Natasha Myers
Eric Mykhalovskiy
Janice Newton
Nancy Nicol
Michael Nijhawan
Shobna Nijhawan
Jonathan Nitzan
Bobby Noble
Naomi Norquay
Anne O'Connell
Mona G. Oikawa
Andrea O'Reilly
Michael Ornstein
Deborah Orr
Leo Panitch
Hyun Ok Park
Viviana Patroni
Mark Peacock
Linda Peake
Elizabeth Pentland
Roberto Perin
P.E. Perkins
Nalini Persram
Kelly Pike
Dennis Pilon
Sergei Plekhanov
Carolyn Podruchny
Justin Podur
Maurice Poon
Ann Porter
B. P. Powe
Norene Pupo
Saeed Rahnema
Indhu Rajagopal
Dennis Raphael
Geoffrey Reaume
Art Redding
Darryl Reed
Markus Reisenleitner
Ester Reiter
Karen Robson
Nick Rogers
Sylvie Rosienski-Pellerin
Stephanie Ross
Amy Rossiter
Robin Roth
Don Rubin
Nick Ruest
Anne Russon
Anders Sandberg
Leslie Sanders
Cate Sandilands
Jan Sapp
Richard Saunders
Gabriele Scardellato
Marlis Schweitzer
Sonya Scott
Victor Shea
Khatereh Sheibani
Joel Shore
James Simeon
Brian Singer
Hira Singh
Lisa Sloniowski
Bruce Smardon
Brenda Spotton Visano
Anne St. Onge
Glenn Stalker
Karen Stanworth
Jennifer A. Stephen
Martha Stiegman
Bill Swanson
David Szablowski
Yvette Szmidt
Patrick Taylor
Matthew Tegelberg
Mark Thomas
Temenuga Trifonova
David Trotman
Steven Tufts
Dorin Uritescu
Karen Valihora
Peter Vandergeest
Gail Vanstone
Jim Vernon
Livy Visano
Usha Viswanathan
Leah Vosko
Colleen Wagner
Philip Walsh
Duff R. Waring
Andy Weaver
Richard Weisman
Kimberly White
Walter Whiteley
Agnes Whitfield
Sandra Whitworth
Deane Williams
Daphne Winland
Ted Winslow
Howard Wiseman
Lesley Wood
Douglas Young
Suzie Young
Anna Zalik