Dear Friends, With the YUSA Annual General Meeting scheduled for October 30, 2013, we are all preparing our reports and looking forward to connecting with the membership. It is difficult to believe I have served the membership as President for 13 consecutive terms. It is only fitting that I will announce I will not be […]
YUSA Member Pina Rubino has been awarded the $500 John St-Amand/Madeleine Parent Bursary. The money will put towards the post-secondary education of her daughter, Jennifer. The CCU/CSC provides three bursaries of $500 each year for dependent children of members of unions belonging to the CCU/CSC for the purpose of furthering their post-secondary education. There are […]
The YUSA membership has recently voted in favour of a constitutional change to include the 2nd Vice-President as a full-time, paid Officer of the union. This is effective January 1, 2014. Sincerely, Joanie Cameron Pritchett President, York University Staff Association
The Confederation of Canadian Unions is very pleased to announce that the Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers (CMAW), which includes workers in a multitude of industries British Columbia, has joined the CCU. Established in 2004, CMAW is a union that puts organizing, labour and human rights, social unionism, and ongoing worker education at the very […]
Canadian trade union member and world-renowned filmmaker, John Greyson, was arrested along with a Canadian colleague, Dr. Tarek Loubani, in Egypt on 16 August 2013. The two are still being held without charges in Cairo’s Tora prison. Now the Egyptian prosecutor is threatening to hold all foreigners in prison for an additional 15 days without […]
Click on photo above to see the picture gallery on the CCU website Neither rain nor tornado warnings could keep hundreds of people, adults and kids alike, from enjoying the fourth annual Barrie Labour Day Picnic at Sunnidale Park on September 2nd. Instead of facing bumper to bumper traffic on Highway 400 while heading into […]
From the York University Staff Association and York University The York University Staff Association and York University have been working over several years on the complicated task of negotiating and finalizing a Pay Equity Agreement for Unit 2. The parties are pleased to have reached agreement on the terms of the Plan on August 19, […]
By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett Fifty years ago this week, we watched a man tell the world about his dream. 300,000 people from all over America came to Washington, DC on August 28, 1963 for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the […]
In what is becoming an annual tradition for workers north of Toronto, the CCU, of which YUSA is a longtime member, has organized the fourth annual Barrie Labour Day Event for Monday, September 2, 2013. The picnic, featuring music, food, guest speakers and fun for the kids, will take place at Sunnidale Park, and everyone’s […]
By Past President Joanie Cameron Pritchett Right now in Russia, the host of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics Games, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are facing untold oppression and brutality. The government has recently established new, draconian laws that violate their basic rights and put them at huge risk of further violence. Since its […]