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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 12,000 Ontario college faculty,
including our colleagues at Seneca @ York, are currently on
strike. Their demands include: </span><br>
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A 50:50 ratio of full-time to contract faculty,
which currently sits at over 70% contract
faculty</span></font></div>
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Increased job security for partial-load faculty,
who currently work on one-semester contracts</span></font></div>
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Academic freedom to give faculty a stronger
voice in academic decision-making</span></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">YUFA, along with the
York Cross-Campus Alliance, issued <a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank" x_onclick="return
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href="https://www.yufa.ca/yufa-supports-ontario-college-faculty/"
moz-do-not-send="true">this statement</a> on
Sunday to support their demands.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">Please join us today for
a solidarity rally on campus: </font></div>
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color="#990000">Solidarity rally: </font></b></span></div>
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size="4" color="#990000"><b>'We support Ontario
college faculty!'</b></font></span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">Thursday, October 19</font></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
(stop by when you can)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">Main Gate, York
Boulevard</font></div>
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sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
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href="https://www.facebook.com/events/213231625882568"
moz-do-not-send="true">Facebook</a> | <a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank" x_onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="http://maps.info.yorku.ca/files/2013/02/KEELE_Map_Colour.pdf"
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000">While the
main rally begins at 12:30 p.m., YUFA members are
welcome to visit Seneca picket lines on Ian
Macdonald Boulevard between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30
p.m.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">The main rally will
include speakers from: </font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
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href="https://opseu.org" moz-do-not-send="true">OPSEU</a>,
the union representing Ontario college Faculty</font></div>
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sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
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href="http://ofl.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">Ontario
Federation of Labour</a></font></div>
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sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
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x_onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="https://www.caut.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">Canadian
Association of University Teachers</a></font></div>
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sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
x_onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="https://cupe.on.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">CUPE
Ontario</a></font></div>
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sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
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href="http://www.yfs.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">York
Federation of Students</a></font></div>
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sans-serif" color="#000000"><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
x_onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="http://yugsa.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">York
University Graduate Students' Association</a></font></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">And other allies from
the York Cross-Campus Alliance</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000"><span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please
spread the word! See you Thursday!</span><font
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For the
latest updates about the strike, please click <a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank" x_onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="https://opseu.org/college-faculty-strike-information-2017"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>. </font><span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To
send a letter of support for Ontario college
faculty, please click </span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
x_onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="http://www.collegefaculty.org/letters_of_support"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a><span
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">Read this post <a
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target="_blank" x_onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/support-seneca-faculty-join-thursdays-solidarity-rally/"
moz-do-not-send="true">online</a>.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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color="#990000">York University Faculty
Association</font></span></b></p>
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lang="EN-GB">YUFA</span></span><span
lang="EN-GB"> is the professional
association and certified bargaining agent
for approximately 1,500 faculty, librarians
and archivists, and post-doctoral visitors
at York University.</span></p>
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