News and Updates

Support College Support Staff

10,000 college workers with OPSEU are on strike. Ontario’s public colleges are the backbone of the province’s economy. They train workers, fill skills gaps, and support key sectors like health care, manufacturing, and hospitality. They reduce poverty, create employment, and strengthen local communities. Instead of properly funding the college system so that it can fulfill these missions, however, the Ford government has manufactured a crisis by defunding public colleges on a per student basis and handing millions to private for-profit training companies.

Support the Atlantic School of Theology Faculty Association

The Atlantic School of Theology Faculty Association (ASTFA) could be on strike as early as Tuesday, July 1st. With a total of just 11 members, the ASTFA are reaching out to ask for help from across the country. 

Help save programs at Algoma University

Since the Spring 2025 semester, admissions to these five programs at Algoma University were suspended abruptly: Geography, History, Music, Sociology, and Visual Art. 

TFA expresses solidarity with those in the TMU community affected by the U.S.-Israel-Iran war

We know many of our Iranian colleagues, staff, and TMU students are experiencing the sudden attack by Israel and the United States on Iran through fearful concern for their family and loved ones. We know that many community members in our association also have family members sheltering in Qatar, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank from Iran’s counter-attacks, and we hope fervently for their safety, as well, and for this attack on Iran to end soon.

TFA adopts motion Recognizing and Addressing Anti-Palestinian Racism at TMU

At our special General Membership Meeting on May 15th the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association passed a motion Recognizing and Addressing Anti-Palestinian Racism at TMU. 

TFA Career Achievement Award Winners – 2025

The TFA would like to announce the winners of the TFA Career Achievement
Award:

– Ron Babin, ITM, Ted Rogers School of Management
– Said Easa, Civil Engineering, Engineering and Architectural Science

Collective bargaining and dispute resolution

On April 23rd, the Professional Affairs Committee of the TFA hosted a panel discussion on collective bargaining and dispute resolution. This session was an opportunity to learn more about collective bargaining and dispute resolution approaches, the history of the TFA’s approach to collective bargaining, and how other unions in the post-secondary sector approach this question.

2025 Supplement to the CAUT Advisory on Travel to the United States

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT has issued a supplement to its 2019 and 2005 travel advisory. This Supplemental Advisory addresses recent developments at the U.S. border, as well as legislative and judicial developments in Canada.

CAUT’s Unlock Education campaign

The Canadian Association of University Teachers has launched its Unlock Education campaign focusing on four key issues in post-secondary education sector – making college and university affordable for everyone, freedom to think, teach and learn, Including new people and new perspectives and universities and colleges we can rely on.

Negotiation Brief: Appointment Process and Tenure and Promotion Evaluation Process in the Faculty of Law

This is the third in the series of Negotiation Briefs in which we share extracts from the TFA arbitration briefs that were submitted to the Arbitrator during the last round of Collective Bargaining, which commenced in April 2023 and concluded with an arbitration award in July 2024. This third brief describes the TFA proposal for amendments to Articles 4 and 5, addressing the Law Faculty hiring process, and the Law Faculty evaluation and tenure review process.

Take action to reverse the program suspensions at York University

To keep up the pressure in the fight against these program suspensions YUFA is asking everyone concerned with these program suspensions at York University – faculty, students, alumni, parents, community members, and the broader academic community – to send a letter to the York University Board of Governors calling on them to rescind the enrollment suspensions. 

Grievance Corner: What’s a grievance?

This is the first of what will be regular grievance corner blogs, intended to provide insight into the work of the grievance committee, and grievance processes more generally. As a first entry, I want to provide context to the work of the committee, by reviewing what is and is not a grievance, and what you should do if you think that you have experienced something that should become a grievance.