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color="#990000"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Chaos, confusion, crisis: Admin’s response to the
strike has made things worse</b></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: -webkit-standard;" size="2"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The York University
senior administration's actions in the last two weeks have
done little to help end the CUPE 3903 strike. Indeed, this
response has made the situation worse. Now in its third
week, the strike appears at an impasse: until its </font><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="http://labour.yorku.ca/2018/03/18/university-requesting-resumption/"
rel="noopener" style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;" moz-do-not-send="true">statement</a><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> on
late Sunday afternoon, the administration has seemed
intent on bargaining—and forcing concessions—through a
public relations campaign in the media.</span></font>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">YUFA
welcomes the decision by the administration to take
steps to return to the bargaining table with CUPE 3903,
but remains deeply concerned by the University's
approach to labour relations since the strike began. The
impact of this approach is increasingly obvious: </font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="2"><strong
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Chaos:</strong><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> In
the absence of a clear decision about whether to suspend
classes across the University, chaos has ensued among
students, faculty, and staff. Students are showing up
for classes that the University claims to be continuing,
only to discover that most have been cancelled (see </span><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/employer-data-on-course-cancellations-during-the-cupe-3903-strike/"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">); faculty have been
inundated with countless requests to justify their
professional and academic judgment to cancel classes;
and staff have been informed they must work extra hours
if picket lines delay their arrival at work.</span></font></div>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font><strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;">Confusion:</strong><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Without
any clarity about what is happening on campus in the
short term, there is widespread confusion about what
will happen in the weeks ahead, especially when the
strike is over. The conflicting and contradictory
messaging from the administration has raised questions
about how remediation will happen, how exams will be
conducted, how students will receive a final grade, and
how the campus will return to any semblance of normalcy
once CUPE members return to work.</span></font></div>
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</font><strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;">Crisis: </strong><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In the midst of the chaos
and confusion, the administration's response has
exacerbated a long simmering crisis of governance at the
University, in which senior administrators are
attempting to shift decision-making power away from
existing and established collegial bodies to
unaccountable and undemocratic management structures.
The attempt to strip Senate of its authority to make an
academic decision about whether classes will continue
across the University is just one example of this
crisis.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">YUFA has
responded to the crisis with a number of goals in mind: </font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2"><strong
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To
protect all rights and entitlements of YUFA members
throughout the strike:</strong><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> The chaos and confusion
caused by the administration's response to the strike so
far are likely to continue long after the strike ends.
In an effort to minimize their effects, YUFA has already
communicated to the Employer that members have
long-planned research and professional commitments in
the next semester, which must be accounted for in any
remediation plans. YUFA is also concerned about workload
issues, especially if members are asked to extend their
classes and/or re-teach aspects of them. In such a
scenario, YUFA and the Employer have agreed that
appropriate compensation must be provided to members for
any additional work they may be asked to do.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2"><strong
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To
preserve the collegial bodies and processes that allow
faculty participation in University governance:</strong><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> YUFA
strongly objects to the administration's trampling on
existing and established practices of collegial
governance in the lead-up to and during the strike. If
we don't defend governance during the strike, it will be
significantly eroded afterwards. For this reason, YUFA
supports colleagues' initiatives to discuss these
questions at faculty councils and share their outcomes
with Senate. YUFA also encourages other forms of
engagement, such as </span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/statement-to-senate-signed-by-28-senators/"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
moz-do-not-send="true">this statement</a><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> signed
by 28 Senators and </span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/senate-motion-on-senate-authority/"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
moz-do-not-send="true">this motion</a><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> that
asserts Senate's authority to determine whether classes
be suspended on the basis of academic integrity.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2"><strong
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To
minimize the disruption to students' education and their
plans for next semester:</strong><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> The
administration's claim that "classes that can continue,
will continue" has contributed to the chaos and
confusion across campus. The reality is that teaching
has come to a complete halt in many faculties, even
according to the Employer's incomplete data (see </span><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/employer-data-on-course-cancellations-during-the-cupe-3903-strike/"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">), yet the administration
continues to peddle the fiction that it's "business as
usual." In the absence of a clear and consistent
approach to classes across campus, students and parents
will continue to receive conflicting and inaccurate
information, and face the prospect of a long and
complicated remediation period that will disrupt their
work, study, and travel plans next semester.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2"><strong
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To
help create the conditions for the parties to return to
the bargaining table and negotiate a settlement:</strong><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> A
negotiated settlement is the best way to end the strike,
and YUFA members have every interest in seeing CUPE 3903
achieve a fair and equitable contract (see </span><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/faq-regarding-yufa-and-the-cupe-3903-strike/"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
moz-do-not-send="true">this FAQ</a><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">).
YUFA signalled its own intent to bargain on February 2,
and will soon meet the Employer to begin re-negotiating
our own Collective Agreement. If the Employer succeeds
in forcing concessions from CUPE 3903, it will have more
confidence—and the momentum—to try forcing concessions
from YUFA, too. Therefore, we urge the Employer to make
every possible effort to reach a negotiated settlement
at the bargaining table with CUPE 3903 this week. A fair
deal could end the strike.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">These goals
will continue to guide and motivate YUFA's actions as
the CUPE 3903 strike continues. We invite all members to
do what they can to support these goals; in addition to
helping bring the parties together to achieve a
negotiated settlement, they have the potential to build
unity among the YUFA membership and strengthen the
Association as we engage the Employer in our own round
of bargaining.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For
the latest YUFA updates about the strike, please click </span><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/cupe-3903-strike-info/"
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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style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Read
this post </span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://www.yufa.ca/chaos-confusion-crisis-admins-response-to-the-strike-has-made-things-worse/"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
moz-do-not-send="true">online</a><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></font></div>
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